Inspirational Quotes
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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.
Happiness is a state of activity.
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.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Anything is possible.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
The beginning is the half of every action.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Don't fear, just live right.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Fortune favors the brave.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.