Inspirational Quotes
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
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.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Change comes from within.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Faith can move mountains.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
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.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
To go fast, row slowly.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.