Inspirational Quotes
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Great men are not always wise.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Never spend your money before you have it.
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.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
God doesn't make junk.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
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.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Be Here Now.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.