Inspirational Quotes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Without a general an army is lost.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Better late than never.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Ideas without action are worthless.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
You only get out what you put in.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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.
Every dog has his day.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Do it now !
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.