Inspirational Quotes
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Kindness is always fashionable.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
It's always too soon to quit !
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Hope springs eternal.
Above all to thine own self be true.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
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.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
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.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
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.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
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.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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.
Kind words conquer.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Anything is possible.
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.