Inspirational Quotes
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Live your dreams.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
It ain't over till it's over.
The book you don't read cant help.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
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."
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The road to success is always under construction.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
This is the beginning of a new day.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
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.
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.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
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.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
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.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
He who hesitates is lost.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
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.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Follow your dreams.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.