Inspirational Quotes
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
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.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Without a general an army is lost.
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 miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Never spend your money before you have it.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Live with passion !
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Anything is possible.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Friendship is not born of words alone.