Inspirational Quotes
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
The beginning is the half of every action.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Life is what you make it.
You must motivate yourself every day.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The best way out is always through.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
I think therefore I am
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
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Begin with the end in mind.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
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 wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The past does not equal the future.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
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.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.