Inspirational Quotes
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
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.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Be the change you want to see in the world.
It is always your next move.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
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.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The book you don't read cant help.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
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.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Whatever it takes !
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.