Inspiring Quotes

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.

Breath is the king of mind.

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.