Inspirational Quotes
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Great men are not always wise.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Find the good -- and praise it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Obstacles are great incentives.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
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.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Happiness is a choice.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
None are homely who smile.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
He who hesitates is lost.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
You create your reality.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
You're as old as you behave.
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.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Ability is sexless.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.