Inspirational Quotes
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
The show must go on.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Nothing succeeds like success.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Live your dreams.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Kind words conquer.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Love conquers all.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Only the educated are free.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
You're as old as you behave.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
It ain't over till it's over.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Find the good -- and praise it.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Never, never, never give up.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
It is always your next move.