Inspirational Quotes
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
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.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Hunker down.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Ability is sexless.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The book you don't read cant help.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
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.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Don't ever give up.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
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.
It's always too soon to quit !
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Change comes from within.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Anything is possible.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.