Inspirational Quotes
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Ability is sexless.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
It's always too soon to quit !
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Never say more than is necessary.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
The book you don't read cant help.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.