Inspirational Quotes
Slow but steady wins the race.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
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.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
The buck stops here.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
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.
They can because they think they can.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Let's roll.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
What ever you are be a good one.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
This too, shall pass.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Hard work pays off.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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.
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.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.