Inspirational Quotes
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The ready back gets all the loads.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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.
Talkers are no good doers.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
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.
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.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
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.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Don't fear, just live right.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up