Inspirational Quotes
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
You become what you think about.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
I light my candle from their torches.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Practice makes perfect.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Ideas... they have the power
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
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.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Success is never wondering what if.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The book you don't read cant help.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Remove failure as an option.
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.