Inspirational Quotes
Anything is possible.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Every human heart is human.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Kind words conquer.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
It is always your next move.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Kindness is always fashionable.
God doesn't make junk.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The best way out is always through.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
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.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Carpe diem.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.