Inspirational Quotes
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Many hands make light work.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
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.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Let's roll.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Happiness is a state of mind.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
The best way out is always through.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
They are able because they think they are able.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
The book you don't read cant help.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
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.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.