Inspirational Quotes
Happiness is a choice.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Practice makes perfect.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Actions speak louder than words.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
There is no education like adversity.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Don't quit.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
You're as old as you behave.
The best things in life are not things.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Know thyself.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
No man is wise enough by himself.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Without a general an army is lost.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
No pain, No gain.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
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.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
A bold onset is half the battle.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Ideas... they have the power
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.