Inspirational Quotes
Love conquers all.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Fortune favors the brave.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Love understands all languages.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Hard work pays off.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Be Here Now.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Kindness is always fashionable.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Live your dreams.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Remove failure as an option.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
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.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Happiness is a state of activity.