Inspirational Quotes
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
No involvement, no commitment.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
My life is my message.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Laughter is the best medicine.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Let's roll.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
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.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Seize the day.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.