Inspirational Quotes
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
The beginning is the half of every action.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
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.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Success is a journey not a destination.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Fortune favors the brave.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
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.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
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.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.