Inspirational Quotes
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
We have not yet begun to fight.
You are what you think you are.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Better late than never.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Be who you are in every situation.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
No man is wise enough by himself.
The book you don't read cant help.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
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.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Never complain about what you permit.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.