Inspirational Quotes
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Action is the antidote to despair.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Every human heart is human.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Happiness is a state of mind.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Never complain about what you permit.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Attitude is everything.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Don't fear, just live right.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Only the educated are free.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
There are no gains without pains.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.