Inspirational Quotes
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
The road to success is always under construction.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Only the educated are free.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Live your life and forget your age.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
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.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
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.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Whatever it takes !
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
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.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
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.
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
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Those who laugh - last!!
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.