Inspirational Quotes
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Without a general an army is lost.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
No pain, No gain.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Actions speak louder than words.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Anything is possible.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
If it is to be it is up to me.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Hope springs eternal.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Old love does not rust.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Follow your dreams.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.