Inspirational Quotes
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Obstacles are great incentives.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
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.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
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.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Fortune favors the brave.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
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.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
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.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Let thy words be few.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
To ask the hard question is simple.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
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.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.