Inspirational Quotes
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
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.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Believe in yourself.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Ability is sexless.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The sun will come up tomorrow
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Things do not change we change.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.