Inspirational Quotes
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
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
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Happiness is a state of mind.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hard work pays off.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
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.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.