Inspirational Quotes
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Love conquers all.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
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.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
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.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Honesty is the best image.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
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.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.