Inspirational Quotes
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Better late than never.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
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.
Children are all foreigners.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Never spend your money before you have it.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
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
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Be all you can be.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
We must be the change we wish to see.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.