Inspirational Quotes
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Every human heart is human.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
If you would create something, you must be something.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Things do not change we change.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
They are able because they think they are able.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Love conquers all.
It's always too soon to quit !
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
There is no education like adversity.