Inspirational Quotes
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
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.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Above all to thine own self be true.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
My life is my message.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
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.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Live life to the fullest.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
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.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
The best things in life are free.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Only the educated are free.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Never spend your money before you have it.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
It's never too late.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
If you would create something, you must be something.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Let thy words be few.