Inspirational Quotes
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Never Quit.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Don't water your weeds.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The road to success is always under construction.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
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.
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.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
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.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
No involvement, no commitment.
Attitude determines altitude.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Necessity is the mother of invention.