Inspirational Quotes
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
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.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
You're as old as you behave.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Happiness is a choice.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
One man with courage is a majority.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Practice makes perfect.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
None are homely who smile.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Many hands make light work.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.