Inspirational Quotes
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Happiness is a state of activity.
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 more goals you set - the more goals you get.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
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.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Keep the Faith.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Children are all foreigners.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
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.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
He who hesitates is lost.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I think therefore I am
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Make the second effort your second nature.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Security is a kind of death.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Let's roll.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.