Inspirational Quotes
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
No man is wise enough by himself.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Don't quit.
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%.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
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.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
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.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
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.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
They can because they think they can.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.