Inspirational Quotes
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Do it now !
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
It's always too soon to quit !
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Know thyself.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
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.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Make the second effort your second nature.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
He who has hope has everything.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
We will either find a way or make one.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Kindness is always fashionable.
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.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The world belongs to the energetic.