Inspirational Quotes
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Ideas without action are worthless.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
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.
God doesn't make junk.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
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.
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.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Carpe diem.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
You can do what you want to do.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Be the best that you can be.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
You always succeed in producing a result.
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.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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