Inspirational Quotes
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Nature does nothing uselessly.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
This is the beginning of a new day.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
What ever you are be a good one.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
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.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Know thyself.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
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.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Never spend your money before you have it.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
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.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
For with god all things are possible.
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.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
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.
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
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.