Inspirational Quotes
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
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.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
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.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
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.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Don't ever give up.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
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.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Begin with the end in mind.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Hard work pays off.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Well done is better than well said.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
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.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Don't fear, just live right.