Inspirational Quotes
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
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.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
You create your reality.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
I am the captain of my soul.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Only the educated are free.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The best way out is always through.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You can do what you want to do.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
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.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
For with god all things are possible.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.