Inspirational Quotes
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Reach for the stars.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
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.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
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.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Anything is possible.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Well done is better than well said.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Kind words conquer.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Live life with passion.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.