Inspirational Quotes
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
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.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Practice makes perfect.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Where there's life, there's hope.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
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 !
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Success leaves clues.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Don't quit.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Be the best that you can be.
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.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Roll with the punches.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
There is time for everything.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
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.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
It's always too soon to quit !
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Great men are not always wise.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.