Inspirational Quotes - Page 346

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Dreams come a couple sizes too big so you can grow into them.

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

A man becomes spiritual insofar as he lives a spiritual life. He begins to see God in all things, to see His power and might in every manifestation. Always and everywhere he sees himself abiding in God and dependent on God for all things. But insofar as a man lives a bodily life, so much he does he do bodily things; He doesn't see God in anything, even in the the most wondrous manifestations of His Divine power. In all things he sees body, material, everywhere and always - "God is not before his eyes." (Ps. 35:2)

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.

Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.

When you appreciate what you have, then you will receive more. When you are in this moment feeling gratitude for this moment you actually up your vibrational signal to attract more things to be grateful for.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.