Inspirational Quotes
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
They are able because they think they are able.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
You only get out what you put in.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
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''.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Every human heart is human.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
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.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.