Inspirational Quotes
This is the beginning of a new day.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
The sun will come up tomorrow
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
You become what you think about.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
I think therefore I am
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
You create your reality.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.