Inspirational Quotes
Talkers are no good doers.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
You become what you think about.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Ability is sexless.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
The best way out is always through.
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.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Success is predictable.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
A bold onset is half the battle.
You create your reality.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
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.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Attitude is everything.