Inspirational Quotes
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
A leader is a dealer in hope.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Let's roll.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Adventure is worthwhile.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
You become what you think about.
Live life with passion.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
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.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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.
Children are all foreigners.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Great men are not always wise.
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.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Do what you love and the money will follow
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.