Inspirational Quotes
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
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.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
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.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Ideas without action are worthless.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
No involvement, no commitment.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
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.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
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.
Happiness is a choice.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
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
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
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.
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.
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.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
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.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.