Inspirational Quotes
Strike while the iron is hot.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Live life with passion.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
High expectations are the key to everything.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
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.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
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.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Roll with the punches.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
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.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Well done is better than well said.
If it is to be it is up to me.
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.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.