Inspirational Quotes
You only get out what you put in.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Do what you love and the money will follow
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
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.
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.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
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.
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%.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
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.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Talkers are no good doers.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
There is time for everything.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Without a general an army is lost.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.