Inspirational Quotes
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
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.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Love understands all languages.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
My life is my message.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Never Quit.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Success is the child of audacity.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
May you live all the days of your life.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Hard work pays off.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Those who laugh - last!!
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.