Inspirational Quotes
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
He who has hope has everything.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
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.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
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.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Count your blessings.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
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
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The best things in life are free.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.