Inspirational Quotes
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
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 idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
No pain, No gain.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Those who laugh - last!!
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
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The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Hope springs eternal.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
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.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.