Inspirational Quotes
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Live life with passion.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Whatever it takes !
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
For with god all things are possible.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
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 ?'
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
He who hesitates is lost.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
I think therefore I am
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.