Inspirational Quotes
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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.
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.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
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.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
None are homely who smile.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
God doesn't make junk.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
One man with courage is a majority.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
You always succeed in producing a result.
No man is wise enough by himself.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.