Inspirational Quotes
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
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.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Above all to thine own self be true.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Kind words conquer.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
It's never too late.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
A bold onset is half the battle.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Life is what you make it.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
They are able because they think they are able.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Live with passion.