Inspirational Quotes
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Think and grow rich.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Only the educated are free.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Never say more than is necessary.
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.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
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.
Change comes from within.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Every dog has his day.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.