Inspirational Quotes
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Truth fears no questions.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
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.
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.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
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.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
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.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
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.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.