Inspirational Quotes
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
A bold onset is half the battle.
No one became poor by giving alms.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The road to success is always under construction.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Well done is better than well said.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
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.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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 biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Be Here Now.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The buck stops here.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
If there is a will, there is a way.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
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 can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Be the best that you can be.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.