Inspirational Quotes
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Do what you love and the money will follow
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
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.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
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.
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.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The buck stops here.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Live your life and forget your age.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
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.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
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.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Never, never, never give up.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Be all you can be.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
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.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.