Inspirational Quotes
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
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.
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.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
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.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Let's roll.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
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.
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.
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.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
I think therefore I am
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.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Let thy words be few.
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".
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Life is what you make it.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.