Inspirational Quotes
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Seize the day.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
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.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Remove failure as an option.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Laughter is the best medicine.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.