Inspirational Quotes
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
After your jump, the net appears.
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.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Nothing succeeds like success.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Carpe diem.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
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.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Love conquers all.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Know thyself.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
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.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
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.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Practice makes perfect.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.