Inspirational Quotes
I light my candle from their torches.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Never, never, never give up.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
He who has hope has everything.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
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.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
My friends are my estate.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Actions speak louder than words.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
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.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
They can because they think they can.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.