Inspirational Quotes
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Never stop dreaming.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Keep the Faith.