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It's good to feed our thoughts and remind ourselves of these inspiring quotes. I believe they will help us become more focused and more inspired to do our tasks.
Inspiring Quotes
Believe those who are seeking the Truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide
The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. - A.J. Cronin
Intelligent people simplify the complex, fools complicate what is simple.
Everyone thinks of changing Humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy
No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictitus
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. - Bruce Lee
When we have learned to control our thoughts, our sympathies, and our emotions, it will be an easy matter to control our circumstances.
We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. - Dale Carnegie
All our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny. - William James
Be satisfied with nothing but your best. - Emerson
Be not simply good, be good for something. - Thoreau
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity, as of perseverance. - C.W. Windle
May I never use my reason against Truth.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually, or morally in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not even dream. - William James
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Shakespeare
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Schopenhauer
The bird or insect that stumbles into a room and cannot find the window. Because they know no "windows". - Jim Morrison
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they cannot go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. - Ann Rice
Not only do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, they also demand extraordinary investigation.
Hatred of others is misdirected hatred of ourselves.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. - Aristotle.
I will study and prepare myself and then some day my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them. - E. Stanley Jones
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight ... when we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our own life, or the life of another. - Helen Keller
Tackle the work just in front of you. Strive in an honest way to do the best you can, and if, having done your best, there seems to appear the hand of some over ruling power which hammers you, take it like a good piece of steel and come right off the anvil with a better temper and a keener edge. - C. W. Post
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on ... - Abraham Lincoln
Let him that would move the world, first move himself. - Socrates
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength, but perseverance.
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
One can only face in others what one can face in oneself. - James Baldwin
You will find either your best friend or your worst enemy in yourself.
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. - Art Turock
The Quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. - Vincent T. Lombardi
Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison
Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right. - Henry Ford
So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key. - the Eagles
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. - Margaret Thatcher
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, all powerful for impotence. - Winston Churchill
When you have a choice to make, and you don't make it, that is in itself a choice. - W. James
Don't let you're learning simply to knowledge, let your learning lead to action.
Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson
Once stretched by a new idea, man's mind never returns to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Through the window of the eye, the soul regards the world's beauty ... who would believe that a small scene of nature could contain the images of the universe? - Leonardo da Vinci
The subject says "I see first lots of things which dance ... then everything becomes gradually connected." - Jim Morrison
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried in my heart. - Anne Frank
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. - Shelly
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Disraeli
Better know nothing than half know many things. - Nietzsche
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to remain silent. - La Bruyere
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. - Hume
With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another. - G. C. Lichtenberg
Great intellects are skeptical. - Nietzsche
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. - Machiavelli
The pen is the tongue of the mind. - Cervantes
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Bacon
Well, just remember this ... when you look up in the sky, you can see the stars and still not see the light... - the Eagles
Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and the camera give us. Not falsified by "seeing". - Jim Morrison
The impossible - what no one can do ... until someone does.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. - Albert Einstein
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Emerson
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must take it.
There is only one real failure in life. That is - not to be true to the best one knows.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts and action.
Man the living creature, the creating individual , is always more important than any established style or system. - Bruce Lee
The Past, the Present and the Future are really one. They are today.
Minds are like parachutes. They function best when open.
The one hundred yard dash is most often won by inches, not feet.
It is not only what you do, but what you do not do, for which you are accountable.
Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards. - E. K Piper
Failure is the path of least persistence.
Future achievements are purchased by today's actions.
The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promise of possibility.
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose. - Emerson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Zig Ziglar
You may not get what you want in life, but you will get what you expect.
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as its moving forward towards something. - Maxwell Maltz
To think you know something is a perfect barrier to learning.
For Knowledge, too, is itself a power. - Bacon
Know Thyself. - Delphi Oracle to Socrates
He who knows himself best esteems himself least. - H.G. Bohn
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. - Hazlitt
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it within himself. - Galileo
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. - Buffini
Out of the strain of the doing, into the peace of the done. - Woodruff
Absorb what is useful , discard what is useless, add what is uniquely your own. - Bruce Lee
Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. - Longfellow
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Men often make up in wrath what they lack in Reason. - Alger
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. - Victor Hugo
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. - Disraeli
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. - Averbach
Self conquest is the greatest of all victories. - Plato
Let us believe neither half the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. - J. Petit-Senn
To confess a fault freely is next thing to being innocent of it. - Syrus
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind, yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran
All types of knowledge, ultimately, are self knowledge. - Bruce Lee
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. - Pope
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - La Bruyere
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. - Emerson on Lincoln
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick along side of it. - D. L. Moody
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. - George Herbert
I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. - Robert Schuller
We are free up to the point of choice. Then the choice controls the chooser. - Mary Crowley
Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. - James Thurber
Get maximum effect from minimum effort. - Bruce Lee
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. - Aristotle
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand Alliance, and in friendship burn. - Addison
None is so deaf as he that will not hear. - Thomas Fuller
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. - Charles Reade
Humility is the solid foundation of all the Virtues. - Confucius
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. - Franklin
Knowing others is intellegence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tzu
If I have seen farther than most men, its because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. - Sir Isaac Newton
The most important thing about goals is having one. - Geoffery Albert
The span of a mans life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life. - Chaim Potok
When Nature wants to take a man, and shake a man, and wake a man; When Nature wants to make a man to do the Futures Will; When she tries with all her skill, and she yearns with all her soul, to create him large and whole, with what cunning she prepares him! How she goads and never spares him, and in poverty begets him. How she whets him and she frets him, how she often disappoints whom she sacredly anoints. With what wisdom she will hide him, never minding what betide him, bids him struggle harder yet. Makes him lonely so that only Gods high messages shall reach him, so that she may surely teach him what the Hierarchy planned. Though he may not understand, gives him passions to command. How remorselessly she spurs him, with terrific ardor stirs him, when she poignantly prefers him!- Angela Morgan
God cures and the doctor sends the bill. - Mark Twain
Sit down before fact like a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly to wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads or you shall learn nothing. - Thomas Huxley
In stillness be like the pine. In movement be like the clouds and water. - Chinese Proverb
The ordinary is the extraordinary! - Master Wang
The imagination is a function or faculty that gives one access to an intermediary world between the realm of unfathomable and hidden mystery and the world of sensible and gross forms. - Isabella Robinet
To change with change is the changeless state. - Bruce Lee
All truths wait in all things, they neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it. They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, the insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch?) - Walt Whitman
I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead. - Woody Allen
Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment. - Emerson
Your stability is as good as your willingness to risk and lose it, trusting yourself to reach stability again in a different position. - Ruthy Alon, Mindful Spontaneity
I went there and came back; it was nothing special: The mountain veiled by misty rain, the river at high tide. The Zenrinkushu
The sages looked up to contemplate the patterns of heaven, looked down to observe the ways of the earth. They knew the inner workings of things, the theories of life and death. - The Yi Jing
To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure? - Confucius
Man. He is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way doing things, thats when he stops growing. - Bruce Lee
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action. - Moshe Feldenkrais, The Potent Self
A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. - Mary Kay Ash
Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be? - Zig Ziglar
Not in the clamor of a crowded street, nor in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in Ourselves, are triumph and defeat. - Longfellow
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not - nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not - unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not - the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. - Goethe
Let him that would move the world, first move himself. - Socrates
True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system. - Bruce Lee
I beg you, do not be unchangeable. Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, the man who maintains that only he has the power to reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul - a man like that, when you know him, turns out empty. - Sophocles
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate, when the last of earth left to discover is that which was the beginning. - T. S. Eliot
Its better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and resolve all doubt. Abe Lincoln
Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. - Bruce Lee