Inspirational Quotes
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Ideas without action are worthless.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Strike while the iron is hot.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Love conquers all.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
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
Every artist was first an amateur.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
No involvement, no commitment.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
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.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
They are able because they think they are able.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
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.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Honesty is the best image.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Adventure is worthwhile.
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.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Seize the day.
Let's roll.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.