Inspirational Quotes
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Kindness is always fashionable.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
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.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Without a general an army is lost.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Live with passion !
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Make the second effort your second nature.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Live your life and forget your age.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
None are homely who smile.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
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.
For with god all things are possible.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Obstacles are great incentives.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.