Inspirational Quotes
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
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.
The show must go on.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The time is always right to do what is right.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Practice makes perfect.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
You always succeed in producing a result.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
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The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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 !
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Those who laugh - last!!
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Hard work pays off.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
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.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Never Quit.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
God doesn't make junk.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.