Inspirational Quotes
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Live life to the fullest.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Think and grow rich.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
You only get out what you put in.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
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.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
It's always too soon to quit !
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Without a general an army is lost.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Every human heart is human.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
The show must go on.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
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.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Believe in yourself.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.