Inspirational Quotes
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Where there's life, there's hope.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Don't ever give up.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Many hands make light work.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Count your blessings.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
You can do what you want to do.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
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''.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Actions speak louder than words.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Keep the Faith.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Do or do not, there is no try.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
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.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Every cloud has a silver lining.