Inspirational Quotes
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
What ever you are be a good one.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Carpe diem.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
You become what you think about.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
There is no substitute for hard work.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
They can because they think they can.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Success is never wondering what if.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.