Inspirational Quotes
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
They alone live, who live for others.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
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.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Attitude is everything.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.