Inspirational Quotes
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Well done is better than well said.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Count your blessings.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
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.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
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.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Do it now !
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.