Inspirational Quotes
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Love sees roses without thorns.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Success is never wondering what if.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
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.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
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.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
It's always too soon to quit !
Don't go through life, grow through life.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
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.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.