Inspirational Quotes
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
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.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
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.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
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.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.