Inspirational Quotes
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Anything is possible.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Security is a kind of death.
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
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 !
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Don't think it, ink it.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
They alone live, who live for others.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
No involvement, no commitment.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.