Inspirational Quotes
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Don't think it, ink it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Never complain about what you permit.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
This too, shall pass.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
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.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Success is never wondering what if.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
No man is wise enough by himself.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The buck stops here.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.