Inspirational Quotes
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
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.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Believe in yourself.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Begin with the end in mind.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
He who hesitates is lost.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Every artist was first an amateur.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
None are homely who smile.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
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.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.