Inspirational Quotes
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
I think therefore I am
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Things do not change we change.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
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.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Attitude determines altitude.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
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.
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.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Hope springs eternal.
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.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Seize the day.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.