Inspirational Quotes
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
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.
Fortune favors the brave.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
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.
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.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Don't think it, ink it.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Many hands make light work.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Kind words conquer.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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?
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.