Inspirational Quotes
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
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.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
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.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
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.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
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.
Truth fears no questions.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Attitude determines altitude.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
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.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
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.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Happiness is a choice.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Find the good -- and praise it.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.