Inspirational Quotes
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Do it now !
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The show must go on.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
They are able because they think they are able.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
You become what you think about.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We have not yet begun to fight.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The book you don't read cant help.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Honesty is the best image.
It's never too late.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Be the best that you can be.
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.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Live your dreams.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.