Inspirational Quotes
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
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.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Seize the day.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
You are what you think you are.
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.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
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.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The road to success is always under construction.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.