Inspirational Quotes
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
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.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Let's roll.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The best things in life are not things.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Attitude determines altitude.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
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 ?
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Anything is possible.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Every dog has his day.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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".
Without a general an army is lost.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.