Inspirational Quotes
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
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 !
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Don't fear, just live right.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Practice makes perfect.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
My friends are my estate.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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 ?
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.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
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.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Reach for the stars.