Inspirational Quotes
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
They are able because they think they are able.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
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.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
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.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Success leaves clues.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Don't ever give up.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
The time is always right to do what is right.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.