Inspirational Quotes
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Believe in yourself.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
I light my candle from their torches.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
It's never too late.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Hunker down.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
This too, shall pass.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Live your life and forget your age.
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.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Faith can move mountains.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.