Inspirational Quotes
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
To ask the hard question is simple.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Let thy words be few.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
This is the beginning of a new day.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Follow your dreams.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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%.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Security is a kind of death.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Remove failure as an option.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?