Inspirational Quotes
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
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.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Carpe diem.
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.
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.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The best things in life are not things.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Love conquers all.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
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.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.