Inspirational Quotes
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
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.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Honesty is the best image.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Reach for the stars.
Love understands all languages.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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.
Our intentions create our reality.
Hard work pays off.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
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.
They can because they think they can.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
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.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.