Inspirational Quotes
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
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.
They can because they think they can.
The show must go on.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
You become what you think about.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
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.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
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.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
My friends are my estate.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
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.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
To go fast, row slowly.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Every human heart is human.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
After your jump, the net appears.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
What ever you are be a good one.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.