Inspirational Quotes
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
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.
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.
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.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
This too, shall pass.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
You become what you think about.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
I am the captain of my soul.
Don't water your weeds.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
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 is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
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.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
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.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
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.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
God doesn't make junk.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
For with god all things are possible.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Do it now !
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Live with passion !
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.