Inspirational Quotes
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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.
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.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
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.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
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.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The buck stops here.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
If you would create something, you must be something.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
In love beggar and king are equal.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The past does not equal the future.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Never stop dreaming.
Life is what you make it.