Inspirational Quotes
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Never Quit.
Slow but steady wins the race.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Security is a kind of death.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
I think therefore I am
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Do what you love and the money will follow
No one became poor by giving alms.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Find the good -- and praise it.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
This is the beginning of a new day.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.