Inspirational Quotes
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
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.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
May you live all the days of your life.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
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.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
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.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Be Here Now.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
You become what you think about.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Don't think it, ink it.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
It's always too soon to quit !
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
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.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.