Inspirational Quotes
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Never spend your money before you have it.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Embrace your inner voice.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Love sees roses without thorns.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
It is never too late to be what we might have been
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Never, never, never give up.
Every artist was first an amateur.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
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.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
After your jump, the net appears.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
What ever you are be a good one.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Success is never wondering what if.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
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.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.