Inspirational Quotes
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.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
What ever you are be a good one.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
He who hesitates is lost !
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.