Inspirational Quotes
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The buck stops here.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Well done is better than well said.
It ain't over till it's over.
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.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Things do not change we change.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Do what you love and the money will follow
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.