Inspirational Quotes
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The show must go on.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Live life with passion.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Every artist was first an amateur.
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.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
One man with courage is a majority.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
It's never too late.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
My life is my message.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Never, never, never give up.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
The book you don't read cant help.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.