Inspirational Quotes
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Security is a kind of death.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
No man is wise enough by himself.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
You must motivate yourself every day.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
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.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
You're as old as you behave.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.