Inspirational Quotes
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
There is no education like adversity.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
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.
To go fast, row slowly.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
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.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
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.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
There is time for everything.
Be all you can be.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
No pain, No gain.
Remove failure as an option.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
All work is empty save when there is love.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Let's roll.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Hunker down.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.