Inspirational Quotes
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
The best things in life are free.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
God doesn't make junk.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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.
Success is never wondering what if.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Above all to thine own self be true.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Actions speak louder than words.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
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 only gift is a portion of thyself.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
It ain't over till it's over.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
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.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.