Inspirational Quotes
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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 person does not hear.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It is always your next move.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
None are homely who smile.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
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.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
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 !
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Change comes from within.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Whatever it takes !
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
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.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Do it now !
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Great men are not always wise.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.