Inspirational Quotes
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
You become what you think about.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
You are what you think you are.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Don't think it, ink it.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
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.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Never say die.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
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, never, never give up.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Don't quit.
Don't water your weeds.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Grow deep - not just tall.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.