Inspirational Quotes
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Those who laugh - last!!
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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''.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Keep the Faith.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Success is predictable.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
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.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
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.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.