Quotes on Inspirational

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

The world is my country. Science my religion.