Inspirational Quotes
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
This too, shall pass.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Keep away from small 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.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The sun will come up tomorrow
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.