Inspirational Quotes
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
They can because they think they can.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
They can because they think they can.
No involvement, no commitment.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
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?
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
The best way out is always through.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
This is the beginning of a new day.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Happiness is a choice.
The buck stops here.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Hunker down.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Do what you love and the money will follow
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.