Inspirational Quotes
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Follow your dreams.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
A bold onset is half the battle.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
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.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get 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.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
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.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
There is no education like adversity.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.