Inspirational Quotes
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
He who stops being better stops being good.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
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.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Find the good -- and praise it.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Those who laugh - last!!
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Great men are not always wise.
It's never too late.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Every human heart is human.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Never stop dreaming.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.