Inspirational Quotes
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Life is what you make it.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Hunker down.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Live your life and forget your age.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
The best things in life are free.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
God doesn't make junk.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Success is predictable.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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 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.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.