Inspirational Quotes
Whatever you are be a good one.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
If there is a will, there is a way.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
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.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
To ask the hard question is simple.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Change comes from within.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
We will either find a way or make one.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Hunker down.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
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.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
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.
Never say more than is necessary.