Inspirational Quotes
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
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.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
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.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
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 are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
We have not yet begun to fight.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
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.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
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 pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Children are all foreigners.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
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.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '