Inspirational Quotes
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
To ask the hard question is simple.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
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.
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.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
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.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Begin with the end in mind.
The beginning is the half of every action.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Every artist was first an amateur.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
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.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Success is predictable.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
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.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Practice makes perfect.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Carpe diem.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.