Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.
Henry Ford, My Life and Work
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In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least.
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
The Buddha, The Dhammapada
The soul that loves is neither wearied nor wearies.
John of the Cross, The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Vol. II
Every impression produced a thousand echoes in my mind. I wanted to know more of this wonderful force…
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together, by paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds and beasts, and filling the air with the smoke of naphtha and coal, still spring was spring, even in the town.
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
Do not keep your kindness in water-tight compartments. If it runs over a bit 'twill do no harm.
Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
You must first know what people need, and then invest yourself where you are most needed.
Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
…if you are to reach some further point it can only be by starting from where you are now.
Thomas Troward, The Doré Lectures
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly…
Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic
No quality of mind is more needful to success in all undertakings than courage, and by courage I mean not only courage to act but courage to think.
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them
…to be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
John Muir, Our National Parks
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love.
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
…disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man…
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Grow as the flower grows, unconsciously, but eagerly anxious to open its soul to the air.
Mabel Collins, Light on the Path
Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower in civic virtue. Man is a soul, not an institution; his inner reforms alone can lend permanence to outer ones.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series
…a man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to rouse the honest.
George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, Second Series
The true way to conquer circumstances is to be a greater circumstance yourself.
Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front
Do all you can for yourselves, and then trust to Providence, or luck, or whatever you please to call it, for the rest.
P. T. Barnum, Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet