Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Without haste without rest Bind the motto to thy breast Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine, guard it well.
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
The life of man appears a glorious fate:
The day how lovely, and the night how great!
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
You can, for you must.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty.
Few have at once both thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Why, young orphan, all this wailing?
Who is the happiest of men?
One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
Black and stormy was the night.
Yearning a sacrifice of love to bring.
The scent mounts up to heaven.
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Love has power to give in a moment what toil can scarcely reach in an age.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Precaution is better than cure.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being
My friend, why meet I here with thee?
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness But the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
Not at home;
She's then, thought I.
love awakes,--
And the silence Phoebus breaks
Of his mountains, of his vales,
Sweetly blow the balmy gales;
All for whom he shows affection,
Who are worthy his protection,
Gladly follow his direction.
Give her in return of beauty rare.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories