Inspirational Quotes
We must be the change we wish to see.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
A bold onset is half the battle.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
One man with courage is a majority.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Be who you are in every situation.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Grow deep - not just tall.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.