inspirational Quotes
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
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The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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Poor and most middle-class people believe "If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I'd be a success." Rich people understand, "If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to do to have what I want, including a lot of money."
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
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I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.
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Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
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..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
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When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.
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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
