Inspirational Quotes
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Kindness is always fashionable.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Let's roll.
We will either find a way or make one.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
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.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
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''.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
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.
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.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
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.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
He who hesitates is lost !
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The best things in life are not things.
After your jump, the net appears.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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!
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
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 always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Kind words conquer.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.