Inspirational Quotes
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Live life with passion.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
All work is empty save when there is love.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Pep without purpose is piffle.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Roll with the punches.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The best things in life are not things.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Be the best that you can be.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Don't fear, just live right.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.