Inspirational Quotes
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 wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
All work is empty save when there is love.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
If there is a will, there is a way.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
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.