Inspirational Quotes
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
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.
The time is always right to do what is right.
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.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Live with passion !
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds 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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Whatever you are be a good one.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
There is no substitute for hard work.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
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.
They alone live, who live for others.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
In love beggar and king are equal.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The successful man is the average man, focused.