Inspirational Quotes
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Reach for the stars.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Don't water your weeds.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
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.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
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.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Those who laugh - last!!
Great men are not always wise.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Practice makes perfect.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
After your jump, the net appears.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Grow deep - not just tall.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.