Inspirational Quotes
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Change comes from within.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
It is always your next move.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
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.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Whatever it takes !
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Success is predictable.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Children are all foreigners.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
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 ?
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
God doesn't make junk.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
To ask the hard question is simple.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.