Inspirational Quotes
Many hands make light work.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
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.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Live life to the fullest.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
To go fast, row slowly.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Never say more than is necessary.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.