Inspirational Quotes
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Without a general an army is lost.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Slow but steady wins the race.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
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.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
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.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Every artist was first an amateur.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Be Here Now.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.