Inspirational Quotes
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Anything is possible.
Never Quit.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Fortune favors the brave.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
To ask the hard question is simple.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Be who you are in every situation.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
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.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within