Inspirational Quotes
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Let thy words be few.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
There are no gains without pains.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
If it is to be it is up to me.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
After your jump, the net appears.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
It ain't over till it's over.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
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.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Never say more than is necessary.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.