Inspirational Quotes
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
God doesn't make junk.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Reach for the stars.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say 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.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Never say more than is necessary.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
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.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
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.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
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.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Think and grow rich.
Grow deep - not just tall.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
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.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
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.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.