Inspirational Quotes
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
All work is empty save when there is love.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Actions speak louder than words.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Never say die.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Never stop dreaming.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Fortune favors the brave.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
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 gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.