Inspirational Quotes
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Every dog has his day.
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.
Believe in yourself.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Seize the day.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Seek first to understand, then be understood