Inspirational Quotes
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Children are all foreigners.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
They are able because they think they are able.
Be all you can be.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Better late than never.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
He who stops being better stops being good.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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.
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.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Actions speak louder than words.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
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.