Inspirational Quotes
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
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.
God doesn't make junk.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Well done is better than well said.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
The time is always right to do what is right.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
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.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Kind words conquer.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
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.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Do it now !
Many hands make light work.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
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.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
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.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Never complain about what you permit.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The buck stops here.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.