Inspirational Quotes
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Better late than never.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Be Here Now.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Success leaves clues.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Every dog has his day.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
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.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.