Inspirational Quotes
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
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.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
You become what you think about.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
They can because they think they can.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Do it now !
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
He who hesitates is lost !
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Many hands make light work.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The truth is more important than the facts.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.