Inspirational Quotes
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
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.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
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.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Well done is better than well said.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Hope springs eternal.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
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.
Believe in yourself.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
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.
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.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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.
Our intentions create our reality.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?