Inspirational Quotes
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
High expectations are the key to everything.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The best things in life are not things.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
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.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
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.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Every human heart is human.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.