Inspirational Quotes
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The best things in life are free.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Hunker down.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Let thy words be few.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Carpe diem.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.