Inspirational Quotes
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
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.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Let thy words be few.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Live with passion !
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Never Quit.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
It is always your next move.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.