Inspirational Quotes
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Hunker down.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Life is what you make it.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
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 be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
What ever you are be a good one.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
For with god all things are possible.
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.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
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.
Live your life and forget your age.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Be the best that you can be.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Don't fear, just live right.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.