Inspirational Quotes
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Remove failure as an option.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
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.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Every human heart is human.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
I light my candle from their torches.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
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.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
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.'
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Success is never wondering what if.
Do it now !
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !