Inspirational Quotes
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
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.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Without a general an army is lost.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Find the good -- and praise it.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The best way out is always through.
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.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
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.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
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.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
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.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind