Inspirational Quotes
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Hope springs eternal.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
We must be the change we wish to see.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Roll with the punches.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.