Inspirational Quotes
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Never complain about what you permit.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Do what you love and the money will follow
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
You are what you think you are.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
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''.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Let thy words be few.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
They can because they think they can.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
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.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.