Inspirational Quotes
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Better late than never.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
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.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
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.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.