Inspirational Quotes
No man is wise enough by himself.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
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?
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
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
Be the best that you can be.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
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.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
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.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
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.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
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.
Laughter is the best medicine.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Never Quit.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.