Inspirational Quotes
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Happiness is a choice.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
I am the captain of my soul.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Without a general an army is lost.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
A bold onset is half the battle.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
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.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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.
You always succeed in producing a result.
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.
The best things in life are free.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Truth fears no questions.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
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.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
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.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.