Inspirational Quotes
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
None are homely who smile.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Hard work pays off.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Don't quit.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Our intentions create our reality.
There is no substitute for hard work.
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.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Never say die.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Many hands make light work.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Happiness is a state of activity.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.