Inspirational Quotes
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
There are no gains without pains.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
If there is a will, there is a way.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
He who hesitates is lost !
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
They can because they think they can.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Roll with the punches.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Honesty is the best image.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
I light my candle from their torches.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
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.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.