Inspirational Quotes
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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.
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.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
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.
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.
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.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
No pain, No gain.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.