Inspirational Quotes
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Keep away from 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.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
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.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.