Inspirational Quotes
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Never complain about what you permit.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Follow your dreams.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
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.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.