Inspirational Quotes
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
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".
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The buck stops here.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
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.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
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.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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 critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Those who laugh - last!!
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.