Inspirational Quotes
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
You must motivate yourself every day.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
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.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Hunker down.
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.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
The past does not equal the future.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Change comes from within.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
They can because they think they can.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Follow your dreams.
This too, shall pass.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Those who laugh - last!!
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
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 a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.