Inspirational Quotes
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Live life to the fullest.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The show must go on.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Reach for the stars.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The book you don't read cant help.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
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.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
A leader is a dealer in hope.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Faith can move mountains.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.