Inspirational Quotes
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Practice makes perfect.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
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 ?
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
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.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
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 ?
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Never Quit.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Experience is the best teacher.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
There is no education like adversity.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.