Inspirational Quotes
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
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.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Never Quit.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Anything is possible.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
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.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Many hands make light work.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
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.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
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.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
We must be the change we wish to see.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
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.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.