Inspirational Quotes
My friends are my estate.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Success is the child of audacity.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
To ask the hard question is simple.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
There is no education like adversity.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Whatever it takes !
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Embrace your inner voice.
Many hands make light work.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Live with passion !
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
You become what you think about.
The best things in life are free.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
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.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.