Inspirational Quotes
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Find the good -- and praise it.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
The price of greatness is responsibility.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Well done is better than well said.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I light my candle from their torches.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
If it is to be it is up to me.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Success is the child of audacity.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Success is never wondering what if.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
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.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Actions speak louder than words.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
They can because they think they can.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.