Inspirational Quotes - 2

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

A will finds a way.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

You only live once, but if you live it right, once is enough.

Yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift that is why we call it the present.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

The perfect journey is circular - the joy of departure and the joy of return.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies.

A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude for each specific occasion. It has the power to attract the good and the beautiful. A negative attitude repels people and will rob you of all that makes life worth living.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine - love in return.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

May the best of your today be the worst of your tomorrow.

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

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