Inspirational Quotes
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
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.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The truth is more important than the facts.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
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.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
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.
Security is a kind of death.
Be Here Now.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
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.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
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 ?
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
They alone live, who live for others.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.