Inspirational Quotes
The truth is more important than the facts.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
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.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Never spend your money before you have it.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Make the second effort your second nature.
You can do what you want to do.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Talkers are no good doers.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
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.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Never say die.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Reach for the stars.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
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.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
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.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.