Inspirational Quotes
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
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.
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.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
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.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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.
Don't water your weeds.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
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
The road to success is always under construction.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.