Inspirational Quotes
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
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.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Never stop dreaming.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Remove failure as an option.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Make the second effort your second nature.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
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.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Love understands all languages.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
In love beggar and king are equal.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Without a general an army is lost.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at