Inspirational Quotes
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
They can because they think they can.
Great men are not always wise.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The best things in life are not things.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Attitude is everything.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Let's roll.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
We have not yet begun to fight.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
You can do what you want to do.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Hard work pays off.
Talkers are no good doers.
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.
Carpe diem.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.