Inspirational Quotes
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Think and grow rich.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Our intentions create our reality.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
There is no substitute for hard work.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Live with passion !
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
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.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.