Inspirational Quotes
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Kindness is always fashionable.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
The past does not equal the future.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Don't fear, just live right.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Well done is better than well said.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Every human heart is human.
What ever you are be a good one.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
It is always your next move.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
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.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
They alone live, who live for others.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.