Inspirational Quotes
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
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.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
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.
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.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
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.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.