Inspirational Quotes
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Whatever you are be a good one.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Count your blessings.
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.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
It is always your next move.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
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%.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
To go fast, row slowly.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.