Inspirational Quotes
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Let's roll.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Fortune favors the brave.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Our intentions create our reality.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Nature does nothing uselessly.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Roll with the punches.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Be Here Now.
Carpe diem.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.