Inspirational Quotes
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Do or do not, there is no try.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Ideas without action are worthless.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
All work is empty save when there is love.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
I light my candle from their torches.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
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.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
You must motivate yourself every day.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.