Inspirational Quotes
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Things do not change we change.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Know thyself.
All work is empty save when there is love.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The beginning is the half of every action.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
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.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You can do what you want to do.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.