Inspirational Quotes
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.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Things do not change we change.
Many hands make light work.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Attitude determines altitude.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
We have not yet begun to fight.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Know thyself.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.