Inspirational Quotes
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Many hands make light work.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Great men are not always wise.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Slow but steady wins the race.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Be who you are in every situation.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Know thyself.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Only the educated are free.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Honesty is the best image.
Success is the child of audacity.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Experience is the best teacher.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
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 !
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.