Inspirational Quotes
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Hope springs eternal.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
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.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Truth fears no questions.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
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.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The best way out is always through.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Happiness is a state of mind.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
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.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Embrace your inner voice.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
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.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Don't ever give up.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Don't quit.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Reach for the stars.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
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.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
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.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.