Inspirational Quotes
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The best way out is always through.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
They can because they think they can.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.