Inspirational Quotes
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
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.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Hunker down.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Above all to thine own self be true.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
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.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
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 ?
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Well done is better than well said.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.