Inspirational Quotes
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
There is no education like adversity.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Above all to thine own self be true.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
For with god all things are possible.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
My life is my message.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Adventure is worthwhile.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
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.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.