Inspirational Quotes
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
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.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
They can because they think they can.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
They alone live, who live for others.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
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.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The best things in life are not things.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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 person does not hear.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
You are what you think you are.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Children are all foreigners.
If it is to be it is up to me.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
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 drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Hard work pays off.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.