Inspirational Quotes
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
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.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
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.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Without a general an army is lost.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Love conquers all.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
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.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Hope springs eternal.
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.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
It's never too late.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The buck stops here.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
No involvement, no commitment.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.