Inspirational Quotes
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
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.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
One man with courage is a majority.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
This too, shall pass.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
May you live all the days of your life.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Never complain about what you permit.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Live with passion.
Don't water your weeds.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.