Inspirational Quotes
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Strike while the iron is hot.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
"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.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Honesty is the best image.
Success leaves clues.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Love understands all languages.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Be the best that you can be.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
There is no education like adversity.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Security is a kind of death.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.