Inspirational Quotes
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Old love does not rust.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
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.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Slow but steady wins the race.
It ain't over till it's over.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
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. '
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
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.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.