Inspirational Quotes
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Practice makes perfect.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Faith can move mountains.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Obstacles are great incentives.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
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.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
You must motivate yourself every day.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
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.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Carpe diem.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.