Inspirational Quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Don't think it, ink it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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 !
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Know thyself.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Children are all foreigners.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Find the good -- and praise it.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Honesty is the best image.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.