Inspirational Quotes
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Keep the Faith.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
There is time for everything.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The road to success is always under construction.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The show must go on.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
You create your reality.
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.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Great men are not always wise.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
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.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.