Inspirational Quotes
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.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Every dog has his day.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The book you don't read cant help.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
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.
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
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
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.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Things do not change we change.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
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.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
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.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Believe in yourself.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
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.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.