Inspirational Quotes
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Success is a journey not a destination.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Don't fear, just live right.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
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.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
It is always your next move.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Children are all foreigners.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.