Inspirational Quotes
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
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.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Hard work pays off.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Live with passion.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
You always succeed in producing a result.
The ready back gets all the loads.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
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.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
I think therefore I am
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The book you don't read cant help.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
There is no education like adversity.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
No one became poor by giving alms.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
In love beggar and king are equal.
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.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.