Inspirational Quotes
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
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.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Hard work pays off.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
High expectations are the key to everything.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
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.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Never complain about what you permit.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Don't quit.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Live life with passion.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Ideas... they have the power
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
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.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
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.
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.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.