Inspirational Quotes
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
One man with courage is a majority.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Do it now !
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
I light my candle from their torches.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Let thy words be few.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Life is what you make it.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.