Inspirational Quotes
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Seize the day.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
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.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Life is what you make it.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Do what you love and the money will follow
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
We will either find a way or make one.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
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.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
For with god all things are possible.
Love conquers all.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.