Inspirational Quotes
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
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.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Old love does not rust.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
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.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Fortune favors the brave.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Practice makes perfect.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Honesty is the best image.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Follow your dreams.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Do it now !
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Success is predictable.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.