Inspirational Quotes
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Fortune favors the brave.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
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.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
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.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Roll with the punches.
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.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
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.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
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.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The beginning is the half of every action.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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.
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.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Never Quit.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Be who you are in every situation.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!