Inspirational Quotes
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The sun will come up tomorrow
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
You create your reality.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
My life is my message.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
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!
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Kind words conquer.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.