Inspirational Quotes
One man with courage is a majority.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
In love beggar and king are equal.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Above all to thine own self be true.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The past does not equal the future.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Let thy words be few.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
My life is my message.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
It's never too late.
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.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
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
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.