Inspirational Quotes
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Ideas... they have the power
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Things do not change we change.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
There are no gains without pains.
This too, shall pass.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Follow your dreams.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
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
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Let's roll.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Don't quit.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.