Inspirational Quotes
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
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.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
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.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
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.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
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 !
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Where there's life, there's hope.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Fortune favors the brave.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.