Inspirational Quotes
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
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.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
The sun will come up tomorrow
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
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.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Live your dreams.
I am the captain of my soul.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Believe in yourself.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
It is always your next move.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
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.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Do it now !
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Never, never, never give up.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
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.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.