Inspirational Quotes
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
He who stops being better stops being good.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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 real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
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.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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!
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
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.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Experience is the best teacher.