Inspirational Quotes
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
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.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Live your life and forget your age.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Find the good -- and praise it.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
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.
There is no substitute for hard work.
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.
No man is wise enough by himself.
No involvement, no commitment.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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?
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.