Inspirational Quotes
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
You can do what you want to do.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Live with passion !
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Love understands all languages.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Never complain about what you permit.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
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.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Actions speak louder than words.
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.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
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.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Money without brains is always dangerous.