Inspirational Quotes
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Hunker down.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The sun will come up tomorrow
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
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.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Carpe diem.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
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.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Happiness is a state of activity.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
They can because they think they can.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character