Inspirational Quotes
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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.
Don't fear, just live right.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
There's no abiding success without commitment.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Adventure is worthwhile.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
To ask the hard question is simple.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
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.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Experience is the best teacher.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
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.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
You're as old as you behave.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
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.
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.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Obstacles are great incentives.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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.