Inspirational Quotes
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Hope springs eternal.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
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.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
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.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Love understands all languages.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Kindness is always fashionable.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Success is the child of audacity.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
How far you go in life depends on you 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.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
We have not yet begun to fight.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.