Inspirational Quotes
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
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.
Live life to the fullest.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
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.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Be Here Now.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
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.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Old love does not rust.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.