Inspirational Quotes
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
They are able because they think they are able.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
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.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
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.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
They alone live, who live for others.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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.
Laughter is the best medicine.
My friends are my estate.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Live your life and forget your age.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
You always succeed in producing a result.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul