Inspirational Quotes
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Ability is sexless.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We will either find a way or make one.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Truth fears no questions.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The buck stops here.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
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
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
It's never too late.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Be the best that you can be.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Honesty is the best image.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.