Inspirational Quotes
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
No man is wise enough by himself.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
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.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
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.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Love understands all languages.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Roll with the punches.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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.
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 toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
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.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Practice makes perfect.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
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 ?
Laughter is the best medicine.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.