Inspirational Quotes
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Experience is the best teacher.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Think and grow rich.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
We must be the change we wish to see.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Know thyself.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
I light my candle from their torches.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Embrace your inner voice.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
This too, shall pass.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.