Inspirational Quotes
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
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
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Keep away from 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.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Keep away from 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.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
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.
The sun will come up tomorrow
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
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 greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!