Inspirational Quotes
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
No man is wise enough by himself.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
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.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
They are able because they think they are able.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
You always succeed in producing a result.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Whatever it takes !
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Grow deep - not just tall.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Believe in yourself.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.