Inspirational Quotes
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Live with passion !
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Live life with passion.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Be all you can be.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
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 only gift is a portion of thyself.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
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 worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
You are what you think you are.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
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?
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
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.
The world belongs to the energetic.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.