Inspirational Quotes
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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 pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Attitude determines altitude.
I think therefore I am
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
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.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
They can because they think they can.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
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.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
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.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
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.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Actions speak louder than words.