Inspirational Quotes
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Don't fear, just live right.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
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.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Love understands all languages.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Great men are not always wise.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
It is always your next move.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Things do not change we change.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Success is a journey not a destination.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Faith can move mountains.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
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.
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.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal