Inspirational Quotes
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
We will either find a way or make one.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Don't quit.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
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".
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Success is never wondering what if.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
There is time for everything.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Count your blessings.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
He who has hope has everything.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
You become what you think about.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
The sun will come up tomorrow
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
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.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
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.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Love conquers all.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.