Inspirational Quotes
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Laughter is the best medicine.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
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.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
No one became poor by giving alms.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Our intentions create our reality.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
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.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Live life to the fullest.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
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.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.