Inspirational Quotes
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Think and grow rich.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
The buck stops here.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
My friends are my estate.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Truth fears no questions.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
God doesn't make junk.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Actions speak louder than words.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Be who you are in every situation.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.