Inspirational Quotes
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You're as old as you behave.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
It is always your next move.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
They are able because they think they are able.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
He who has hope has everything.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Ability is sexless.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.