Inspirational Quotes
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Hard work pays off.
Attitude is everything.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
You're as old as you behave.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
The buck stops here.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
I light my candle from their torches.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
The book you don't read cant help.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
God doesn't make junk.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
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.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.