Inspirational Quotes
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Live with passion.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
God doesn't make junk.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
You must motivate yourself every day.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Live life to the fullest.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Never Quit.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The best things in life are free.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Think and grow rich.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
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.
Do it now !
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.