Inspirational Quotes
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Never say die.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
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".
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Well done is better than well said.
Attitude determines altitude.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.