Inspirational Quotes
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Never complain about what you permit.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
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
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Never say die.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Never Quit.
Live with passion !
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Love conquers all.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
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.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Without a general an army is lost.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
He who stops being better stops being good.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
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.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
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.
Security is a kind of death.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Don't think it, ink it.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
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.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.