Inspirational Quotes
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Hunker down.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Well done is better than well said.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
They can because they think they can.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Follow your dreams.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
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.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Life is what you make it.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Let's roll.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Attitude is everything.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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.
You become what you think about.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''