Inspirational Quotes
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
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.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Practice makes perfect.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Live with passion !
Ability is sexless.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
One man with courage is a majority.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
You become what you think about.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Success leaves clues.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.