Inspirational Quotes
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Success is predictable.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Children are all foreigners.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
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.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Live life with passion.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
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.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
God doesn't make junk.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
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.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Don't water your weeds.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Ideas... they have the power
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.