Inspirational Quotes
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Let thy words be few.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Happiness is a choice.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
One man with courage is a majority.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Old love does not rust.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
They are able because they think they are able.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Happiness is a state of mind.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.