Inspirational Quotes
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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 ?
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
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.
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.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
To go fast, row slowly.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Love conquers all.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
This too, shall pass.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Don't ever give up.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Well done is better than well said.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Be the best that you can be.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.