Inspirational Quotes
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
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.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Be all you can be.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
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
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Carpe diem.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Kind words conquer.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.