Inspirational Quotes
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
My life is my message.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
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 mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Those who laugh - last!!
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
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.
If it is to be it is up to me.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
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.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
None are homely who smile.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
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.
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.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Love conquers all.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it