Inspirational Quotes
Success is a journey not a destination.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
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.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Believe in yourself.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
You become what you think about.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
It ain't over till it's over.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Follow your dreams.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
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.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Every dog has his day.
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.
You're as old as you behave.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Live with passion.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.