Inspirational Quotes
He who stops being better stops being good.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
To ask the hard question is simple.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
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.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Never complain about what you permit.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
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.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Where there's life, there's hope.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
You only get out what you put in.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.