Inspirational Quotes
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Embrace your inner voice.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
All work is empty save when there is love.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
No man is wise enough by himself.
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.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
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.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
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.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Those who laugh - last!!
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.