Inspirational Quotes
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
The book you don't read cant help.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
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.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Those who laugh - last!!
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.