Inspirational Quotes
Without a general an army is lost.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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.
Children are all foreigners.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
You create your reality.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
No involvement, no commitment.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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 kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
The show must go on.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The book you don't read cant help.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Never spend your money before you have it.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.