Inspirational Quotes
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
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.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
For with god all things are possible.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Never complain about what you permit.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
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.
What ever you are be a good one.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Fortune favors the brave.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
He who hesitates is lost !
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
You become what you think about.
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.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
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.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.