Inspirational Quotes
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Carpe diem.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
He who hesitates is lost.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Be all you can be.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
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.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.