Inspirational Quotes
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Believe in yourself.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
There are no gains without pains.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Follow your dreams.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
It is always your next move.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Carpe diem.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.