Inspirational Quotes
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
We will either find a way or make one.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
It is always your next move.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Embrace your inner voice.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The book you don't read cant help.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
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.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.