Inspirational Quotes
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
This too, shall pass.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Keep the Faith.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Don't think it, ink it.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
My life is my message.
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.
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.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Never say die.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
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.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
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.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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 is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
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.
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.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
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.