Inspirational Quotes
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
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.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
He who hesitates is lost.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
No one became poor by giving alms.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The past does not equal the future.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Ability is sexless.
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.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Faith can move mountains.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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.
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.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
They can because they think they can.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.