Inspirational Quotes
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Things do not change we change.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
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.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Don't quit.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
You always succeed in producing a result.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Whatever it takes !
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Attitude is everything.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
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.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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 whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.