Inspirational Quotes
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
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.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
God doesn't make junk.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Love sees roses without thorns.
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.
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.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Roll with the punches.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
No man is wise enough by himself.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Slow but steady wins the race.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
The best things in life are free.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Above all to thine own self be true.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Where there's life, there's hope.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work