Inspirational Quotes
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
To go fast, row slowly.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
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.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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.
It's never too late.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
They can because they think they can.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Do it now !
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
There is time for everything.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.