Inspirational Quotes
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Seize the day.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Follow your dreams.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Be who you are in every situation.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
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.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.