Inspirational Quotes
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Never stop dreaming.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
You only get out what you put in.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
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.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
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.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
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.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Know thyself.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
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.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
The buck stops here.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Never Quit.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
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.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Remove failure as an option.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.