Inspirational Quotes
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
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
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
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.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
If it is to be it is up to me.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
The show must go on.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Success is never wondering what if.
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.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
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.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Never spend your money before you have it.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
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.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Seize the day.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The time is always right to do what is right.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.