Inspirational Quotes
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
All work is empty save when there is love.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Old love does not rust.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Attitude is everything.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Those who laugh - last!!
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
It's never too late.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?