Inspirational Quotes
Most ball games are lost, not won.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
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.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Every human heart is human.
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.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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.
May you live all the days of your life.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Only the educated are free.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Happiness is a state of mind.