Inspirational Quotes
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Actions speak louder than words.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Think and grow rich.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Better late than never.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Live life to the fullest.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Great men are not always wise.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
You're as old as you behave.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
The best way out is always through.
Attitude determines altitude.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
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.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Every human heart is human.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Anything is possible.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.