Inspirational Quotes
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Every dog has his day.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
The best way out is always through.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Old love does not rust.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
You are what you think you are.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
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.
Obstacles are great incentives.
I light my candle from their torches.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
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.
The buck stops here.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Be Here Now.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
My life is my message.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.