Inspirational Quotes
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
God doesn't make junk.
Roll with the punches.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Believe in yourself.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Know thyself.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Live your life and forget your age.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Security is a kind of death.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.