Inspirational Quotes
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
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.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Action is the antidote to despair.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Talkers are no good doers.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
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.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
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.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
High expectations are the key to everything.
Adventure is worthwhile.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
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.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Hard work pays off.
He who hesitates is lost !
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Those who laugh - last!!
Success is the child of audacity.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.