Inspirational Quotes
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Find the good -- and praise it.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Be Here Now.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Never Quit.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
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.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
There are no gains without pains.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Be the best that you can be.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
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?
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
I am the captain of my soul.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
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.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
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.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.