Inspirational Quotes
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Adventure is worthwhile.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
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.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Truth fears no questions.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The buck stops here.
Be the best that you can be.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Nothing succeeds like success.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Live your dreams.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
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.
Know thyself.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
You only get out what you put in.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
He who hesitates is lost.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
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.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
This is the beginning of a new day.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
The only real valuable thing is intuition.