Inspirational Quotes
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Only the educated are free.
Live life to the fullest.
They can because they think they can.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
When we place blame, we give away our power.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
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.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Follow your dreams.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Great men are not always wise.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
You are what you think you are.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Whatever it takes !
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
To ask the hard question is simple.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The sun will come up tomorrow
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
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.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.