Inspirational Quotes
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
May you live all the days of your life.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
One man with courage is a majority.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
You become what you think about.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Begin with the end in mind.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
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.
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".
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Only the educated are free.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.