Inspirational Quotes
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The book you don't read cant help.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Never say more than is necessary.