Inspirational Quotes
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
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.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
He who has hope has everything.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Live your life and forget your age.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Begin with the end in mind.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Let thy words be few.
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.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.