Inspirational Quotes
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
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.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
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.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Be all you can be.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Well done is better than well said.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
He who hesitates is lost !
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Do or do not, there is no try.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
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.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Don't think it, ink it.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
What ever you are be a good one.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.