Inspirational Quotes
Don't quit.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Be the best that you can be.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Remove failure as an option.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Carpe diem.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
He who hesitates is lost.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.