Inspirational Quotes
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.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
May you live all the days of your life.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Attitude is everything.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Be the best that you can be.
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.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Anything is possible.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The best things in life are free.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
There is no education like adversity.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.