Inspirational Quotes
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
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.'
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
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.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Truth fears no questions.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.