Inspirational Quotes
Necessity is the mother of invention.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Well done is better than well said.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
It ain't over till it's over.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
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.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
It is always your next move.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.