Inspirational Quotes
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
For with god all things are possible.
Happiness is a choice.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
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.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
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.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
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.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The road to success is always under construction.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Truth fears no questions.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Seize the day.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
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.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
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.
You create your reality.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.