Inspirational Quotes
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Live your dreams.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Never say more than is necessary.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
For with god all things are possible.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Practice makes perfect.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Hunker down.
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 a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
No involvement, no commitment.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
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.