Inspirational Quotes
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Make the second effort your second nature.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Believe in yourself.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Obstacles are great incentives.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
To ask the hard question is simple.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Don't think it, ink it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
I light my candle from their torches.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It's never too late.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The cherokee people are not "my people".
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
He who stops being better stops being good.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.