Inspirational Quotes
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
May you live all the days of your life.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
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 ?
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
You can do what you want to do.
My life is my message.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Ability is sexless.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
You are what you think you are.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Count your blessings.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Things do not change we change.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.