Inspirational Quotes
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
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.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
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.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
There is no education like adversity.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
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.'
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
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 difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
They can because they think they can.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
My friends are my estate.
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.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Change comes from within.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Adventure is worthwhile.
For with god all things are possible.
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
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
It's never too late.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.