Inspirational Quotes
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 create your reality.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
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.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
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.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Never stop dreaming.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
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.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Old love does not rust.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
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.
Actions speak louder than words.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.