Inspirational Quotes
Most ball games are lost, not won.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The ready back gets all the loads.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
To go fast, row slowly.
There is no substitute for hard work.
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 will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
My friends are my estate.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Strike while the iron is hot.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work