Inspirational Quotes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
The show must go on.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
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.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Never complain about what you permit.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Don't ever give up.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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 can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
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.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
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.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
It is never too late to be what we might have been