Inspirational Quotes
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Don't ever give up.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
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.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Don't quit.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Ideas without action are worthless.
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.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Keep the Faith.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.