Inspirational Quotes
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Change comes from within.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Well done is better than well said.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
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.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
You always succeed in producing a result.
We have not yet begun to fight.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
The best things in life are not things.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The buck stops here.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
You must motivate yourself every day.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
My life is my message.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.