Inspirational Quotes
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Never Quit.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Success is predictable.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Obstacles are great incentives.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Actions speak louder than words.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
All work is empty save when there is love.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Roll with the punches.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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.