Inspirational Quotes
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
We will either find a way or make one.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Be Here Now.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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 ?
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
You're as old as you behave.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Follow your dreams.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The best way out is always through.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
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.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
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.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Practice makes perfect.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Obstacles are great incentives.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
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.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.