Inspirational Quotes
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Adventure is worthwhile.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Old love does not rust.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
There is no education like adversity.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
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.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Success is a journey not a destination.