Inspirational Quotes
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
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.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Carpe diem.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
My friends are my estate.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The best things in life are free.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
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.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Success leaves clues.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Great men are not always wise.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
My life is my message.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.