Inspirational Quotes
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The show must go on.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
They can because they think they can.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
It ain't over till it's over.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.