Inspirational Quotes
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
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!
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
This is the beginning of a new day.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
He who has hope has everything.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
I light my candle from their torches.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
You only get out what you put in.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
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.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
You can do what you want to do.
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.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The show must go on.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
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.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
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.
Friendship is not born of words alone.