Inspirational Quotes
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Well done is better than well said.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
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.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
My friends are my estate.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
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
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Live life to the fullest.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The book you don't read cant help.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
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.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.