Inspirational Quotes
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Never, never, never give up.
None are homely who smile.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Better late than never.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
There is no substitute for hard work.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Let's roll.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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.
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.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
The best things in life are free.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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".
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
There is time for everything.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.