Inspirational Quotes
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Obstacles are great incentives.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
You create your reality.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Hope springs eternal.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The best way out is always through.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Well done is better than well said.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
There is no substitute for hard work.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Success leaves clues.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Don't fear, just live right.