Inspirational Quotes
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
One man with courage is a majority.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
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.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
You can do what you want to do.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The book you don't read cant help.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
I think therefore I am
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.