Inspirational Quotes
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
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.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Remove failure as an option.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Security is a kind of death.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
It's never too late.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
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.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.