Inspirational Quotes
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Happiness is a choice.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
The best things in life are free.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
He who has hope has everything.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
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.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
He who hesitates is lost.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
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.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Old love does not rust.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
"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.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Honesty is the best image.
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.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
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.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
No man is free who is not master of himself.