Inspirational Quotes
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Live life to the fullest.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
It's never too late.
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.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
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.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Actions speak louder than words.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.