Inspirational Quotes
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Only the educated are free.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Be Here Now.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Never Quit.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
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 journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
Keep the Faith.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
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.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Don't think it, ink it.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
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
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."