Inspirational Quotes
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Talkers are no good doers.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
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.
There is time for everything.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Kind words conquer.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
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.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
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.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
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.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Never spend your money before you have it.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.