Inspirational Quotes
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
To ask the hard question is simple.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Whatever it takes !
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
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.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
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.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Our intentions create our reality.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Old love does not rust.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Well done is better than well said.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Adventure is worthwhile.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
After your jump, the net appears.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Count your blessings.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.