Inspirational Quotes
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Live with passion !
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Well done is better than well said.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Don't fear, just live right.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
There is no education like adversity.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Honesty is the best image.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
This too, shall pass.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The past does not equal the future.
The sun will come up tomorrow
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
You are what you think you are.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
He who hesitates is lost.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.