Inspirational Quotes
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
It ain't over till it's over.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Kind words conquer.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The best things in life are free.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Think and grow rich.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Live your life and forget your age.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.