Inspirational Quotes
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The best things in life are free.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
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.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Let thy words be few.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Make the second effort your second nature.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Follow your dreams.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
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.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.