Top inspirational quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

-In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

-Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

-It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

-The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

-Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

-With self-discipline most anything is possible.

-Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

-Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

-The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

-Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

-Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

-Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

-Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Great quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

-People only see what they are prepared to see.

-We are always getting ready to live but never living.

-With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

-A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

-Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

-This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

-Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

-A man in debt is so far a slave.

-For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

-The first wealth is health.

-Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

-Beauty without expression is boring.

-Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

-Nothing external to you has any power over you.

-Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

-Money often costs too much.

Top quotes by Benjamin Franklin for better living

-Well done is better than well said.

-It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

-In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

-Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

-You may delay, but time will not.

-Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

-Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

-Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

-Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

-Beauty and folly are old companions.

-I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

-Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

-Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

-He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember.     Involve me and I learn.

-An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

-Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

-Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Greatest quotes by albert einstein

Information is not knowledge.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. 

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. 

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. 

Inspirational quotes of wisdom

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus

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

Giving opens the way for receiving. Florence Scovel Shinn

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. Anton Chekhov

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao Tzu

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. Napoleon Bonaparte

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

The best inspirational quotes by Aabraham Lincoln

-I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

-Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

-No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

-I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

-When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

-Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

-When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

-No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

-A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

-He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

-I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

-Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

-Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

-Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

-In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

-Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

-Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

-You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

-Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

-Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

-Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

-Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Famous quotes by buddha for better living

-Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

-We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

-It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.

-Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

-He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

-To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

-No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

-Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

-We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

-The mind is everything. What you think you become.

-Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

-Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

-It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

-Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

-Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

-To understand everything is to forgive everything.

-There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.