Inspirational Quotes
Roll with the punches.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
To go fast, row slowly.
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.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Live life with passion.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
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.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Faith can move mountains.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Live life to the fullest.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
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.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
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.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Kindness is always fashionable.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
You create your reality.
Never Quit.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.