Inspirational Quotes
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
God doesn't make junk.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
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.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The show must go on.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Attitude is everything.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Ability is sexless.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Don't think it, ink it.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Reach for the stars.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
They are able because they think they are able.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
It's always too soon to quit !
You can do what you want to do.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Do or do not, there is no try.
None are homely who smile.
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.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
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.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.