Inspirational Quotes
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
No involvement, no commitment.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
I light my candle from their torches.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Life is what you make it.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
You become what you think about.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
You create your reality.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.