Inspirational Quotes
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Many hands make light work.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
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.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
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 only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The time is always right to do what is right.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Remove failure as an option.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.