Inspirational Quotes
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.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Grow deep - not just tall.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
I think therefore I am
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Don't quit.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Where there's life, there's hope.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Kind words conquer.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
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.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Live your life and forget your age.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
The best way out is always through.
It ain't over till it's over.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Make the second effort your second nature.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
They can because they think they can.
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.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.