Inspirational Quotes
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
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.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Believe in yourself.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
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.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
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.
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.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Hunker down.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
I am the captain of my soul.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
There are no gains without pains.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
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.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Happiness is a choice.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Things do not change we change.