Inspirational Quotes
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Don't think it, ink it.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
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.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
You create your reality.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Faith can move mountains.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
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.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
He who hesitates is lost.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
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.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
I am the captain of my soul.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Never say die.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
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.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
They can because they think they can.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
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.