Inspirational Quotes
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Believe in yourself.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
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.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The sun will come up tomorrow
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Security is a kind of death.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
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.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Whatever it takes !
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Be all you can be.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Every human heart is human.
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.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
God doesn't make junk.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.