Inspirational Quotes
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Never stop dreaming.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Never, never, never give up.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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.
It ain't over till it's over.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Fortune favors the brave.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
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.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.