Inspirational Quotes
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
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.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Attitude is everything.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
I light my candle from their torches.
It's always too soon to quit !
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
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.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
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.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
They can because they think they can.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'