Inspirational Quotes
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Actions speak louder than words.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
They can because they think they can.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
It's never too late.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
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.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
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.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
If it is to be it is up to me.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Adventure is worthwhile.