Inspirational Quotes
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
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.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Be Here Now.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Obstacles are great incentives.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
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.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
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.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
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.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Embrace your inner voice.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
You only get out what you put in.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
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.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Never say more than is necessary.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
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.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.