Inspirational Quotes
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
This too, shall pass.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Every human heart is human.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
No involvement, no commitment.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
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.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Only the educated are free.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
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.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
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.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Success is the child of audacity.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Live life with passion.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Don't quit.
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 gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.