Inspirational Quotes
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Things do not change we change.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Those who laugh - last!!
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Honesty is the best image.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The beginning is the half of every action.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
They alone live, who live for others.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Never complain about what you permit.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
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.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
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.