Inspirational Quotes
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Truth fears no questions.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Obstacles are great incentives.
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.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Embrace your inner voice.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Grow deep - not just tall.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Success is predictable.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
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.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Most ball games are lost, not won.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The truth is more important than the facts.