Inspirational Quotes
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Children are all foreigners.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Ideas... they have the power
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.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Don't think it, ink it.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Roll with the punches.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Don't ever give up.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
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.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Find the good -- and praise it.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
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.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
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.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The buck stops here.
Live life to the fullest.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
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.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.