Inspirational Quotes
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
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.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
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.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
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.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
A bold onset is half the battle.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
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.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.