Inspirational Quotes
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.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Don't fear, just live right.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
It's never too late.
I think therefore I am
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Success leaves clues.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
No man is wise enough by himself.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
We will either find a way or make one.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.