Inspirational Quotes
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
One man with courage is a majority.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Children are all foreigners.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Carpe diem.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
It's never too late.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
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.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
There is no substitute for hard work.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.