Inspirational Quotes
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.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Don't water your weeds.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
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.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Count your blessings.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.