Inspirational Quotes
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
May you live all the days of your life.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
We will either find a way or make one.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Know thyself.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Never say more than is necessary.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Don't water your weeds.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
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.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.