Inspirational Quotes
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
There is time for everything.
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.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
They are able because they think they are able.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
May you live all the days of your life.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Better late than never.
God doesn't make junk.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
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.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
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.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
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.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.