Inspirational Quotes
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Remove failure as an option.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Be who you are in every situation.
Live life with passion.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Live your life and forget your age.
Truth fears no questions.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
This too, shall pass.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
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.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
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.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Ability is sexless.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
May you live all the days of your life.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Don't water your weeds.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
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.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
No one became poor by giving alms.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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.
Don't think it, ink it.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
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.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
After your jump, the net appears.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
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.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only