Inspirational Quotes
What ever you are be a good one.
There is no education like adversity.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
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.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Believe in yourself.
There is no substitute for hard work.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Anything is possible.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
There are no gains without pains.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
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.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
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.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
If there is a will, there is a way.
They alone live, who live for others.
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 ?
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.