Inspirational Quotes
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Be who you are in every situation.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Believe in yourself.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Live life with passion.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.