Inspirational Quotes
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Above all to thine own self be true.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Things do not change we change.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
To go fast, row slowly.
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.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
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.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
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.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Only the educated are free.
There are no gains without pains.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
They can because they think they can.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.