Inspirational Quotes
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Ability is sexless.
Honesty is the best image.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
He who hesitates is lost.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
There are no gains without pains.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
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 !