Inspirational Quotes
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Keep the Faith.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
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.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
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.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Practice makes perfect.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Seize the day.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Only the educated are free.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Never, never, never give up.
Don't think it, ink it.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
To go fast, row slowly.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.