Inspirational Quotes
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Never stop dreaming.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Do or do not, there is no try.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Let thy words be few.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
He who hesitates is lost.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
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.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
None are homely who smile.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Well done is better than well said.
Count your blessings.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
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.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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 ?
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.