Inspirational Quotes
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
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.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
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 a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
You become what you think about.
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.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
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.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Old love does not rust.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
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?
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
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 never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.