Get Inspired Again!!!

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
- Robert F. Kennedy

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future. Plato

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
- Anonymous


People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. Plato

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
- Karl G. Maeser

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
-Anonymous

You really can change the world if you care enough.
- Marion Wright Edelman

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw

Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
- Anonymous

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
- David O. McKay

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
- Iranian Proverb

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
- John Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.Photo of Navy men
-Anonymous

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
- J. Richard Clarke

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
- Dorothy Day

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them. Thomas Edison

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
- Matthew 5:15 (see also v.14- 16)

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
- Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
- Welsh Proverb

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
- Zen Proverb


There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas Edison


Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction-faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. Thomas Edison


I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas Edison
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness. Thomas Edison

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. Thomas Edison


Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Plato


Friends have all things in common.
Plato

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato


Nothing in this world can
take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful people with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination
alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

Nothing happens until something moves.
- Albert Einstein

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.
To dig for treasures shows not only
impatience and greed,but lack of faith.
Patience and faith is what the sea teaches.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The biggest mistake people make in life is NOT
making a living at doing what they most enjoy.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life.
All that we need to make us happy is
something to be enthusiastic about.
- Albert Einstein

The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
- Bud Wilkinson

Too many people are thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, when they ought to just water the grass they are standing on.
- Amar Dave

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

I once thought that if I could ask God one question,
I would ask how the universe began,
because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations.
But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.
- Albert Einstein