Inspirational Quotes
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
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.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Every human heart is human.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Success leaves clues.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.