Inspirational Quotes
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
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.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
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.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Do what you love and the money will follow
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Well done is better than well said.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
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 ?
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Talkers are no good doers.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.