Inspirational Quotes
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
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) .
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Attitude determines altitude.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Only the educated are free.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
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.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
My life is my message.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Ideas without action are worthless.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Great men are not always wise.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.