Inspirational Quotes
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
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.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Life is what you make it.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Children are all foreigners.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
They can because they think they can.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Practice makes perfect.
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.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
To go fast, row slowly.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
My life is my message.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
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.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.