Inspirational Quotes
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The truth is more important than the facts.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Nothing succeeds like success.
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.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Every artist was first an amateur.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
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.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.