Inspirational Quotes
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
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.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
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.
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.
It is always your next move.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
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.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
The show must go on.
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.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
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''.
We have not yet begun to fight.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
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.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Faith can move mountains.
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.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
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 "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
They can because they think they can.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
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.
Our intentions create our reality.