Inspirational Quotes
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
There is no education like adversity.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
This too, shall pass.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
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.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Don't water your weeds.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Success is never wondering what if.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
He who has hope has everything.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Fortune favors the brave.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Faith can move mountains.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
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.
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.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.