Inspirational Quotes
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Be who you are in every situation.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Truth fears no questions.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
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.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Know thyself.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Love conquers all.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Never stop dreaming.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Fortune favors the brave.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
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".
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.