Inspirational Quotes
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
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. Discover.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Live with passion.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The show must go on.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
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.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
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.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
I light my candle from their torches.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
We will either find a way or make one.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
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 !
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Old love does not rust.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
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.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Without a general an army is lost.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.