Inspirational Quotes
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The ready back gets all the loads.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
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.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Live your dreams.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Experience is the best teacher.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Only the educated are free.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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 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.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.'
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
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.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
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.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.