Inspirational Quotes
Live your dreams.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Think and grow rich.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
To go fast, row slowly.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Be all you can be.
For with god all things are possible.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
It's always too soon to quit !
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The best things in life are not things.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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.
Love understands all languages.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.