Inspirational Quotes
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Be all you can be.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Do it now !
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Let's roll.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Never complain about what you permit.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.