Inspirational Quotes
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Well done is better than well said.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
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.
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.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Never say more than is necessary.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
He who stops being better stops being good.
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Many hands make light work.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
The past does not equal the future.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
You become what you think about.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
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.
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.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
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.
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.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.