Inspirational Quotes
Live with passion.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Be Here Now.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
After your jump, the net appears.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
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.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The best things in life are not things.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
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.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Every human heart is human.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The beginning is the half of every action.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.