Inspirational Quotes
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
The truth is more important than the facts.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
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.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Never complain about what you permit.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
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.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Every human heart is human.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Nothing succeeds like success.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.