Inspirational Quotes
It ain't over till it's over.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Never spend your money before you have it.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
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.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
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 Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Begin with the end in mind.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
There is time for everything.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
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.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
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.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
They alone live, who live for others.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Adventure is worthwhile.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Know thyself.
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".
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Happiness is a state of mind.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.