Inspirational Quotes
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
He who hesitates is lost !
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Happiness is a choice.
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.
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.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
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.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Slow but steady wins the race.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
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.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
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.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Hope springs eternal.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Obstacles are great incentives.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Live life to the fullest.
Every artist was first an amateur.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
There is no education like adversity.