Inspirational Quotes
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Be who you are in every situation.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Don't quit.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Great men are not always wise.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
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.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Nothing succeeds like success.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
The past does not equal the future.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
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 great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
God doesn't make junk.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Don't fear, just live right.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
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.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
The show must go on.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.