Inspirational Quotes
We tend to live up to our expectations.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
You always succeed in producing a result.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
None are homely who smile.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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 !
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
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.
Ideas... they have the power
There is time for everything.
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.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
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.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Ideas without action are worthless.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Honesty is the best image.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Never spend your money before you have it.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
You're as old as you behave.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Hope springs eternal.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.