Inspirational Quotes
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Kind words conquer.
A bold onset is half the battle.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
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.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
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.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
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.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Live your life and forget your age.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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 !
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Hope springs eternal.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
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.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
For with god all things are possible.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
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.
One man with courage is a majority.
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.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Change comes from within.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
My friends are my estate.
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.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.