Inspirational Quotes
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Success is never wondering what if.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
The best things in life are free.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Hunker down.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Kindness is always fashionable.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
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.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Love conquers all.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.