Inspirational Quotes
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
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.
I am the captain of my soul.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
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.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Reach for the stars.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
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.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
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.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Don't quit.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
My life is my message.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
It's never too late.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.