Inspirational Quotes
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Keep the Faith.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
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 you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
They can because they think they can.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Be Here Now.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.