Inspirational Quotes
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Love sees roses without thorns.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
The past does not equal the future.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Live your dreams.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
You create your reality.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
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.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.