Inspirational Quotes
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
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.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Carpe diem.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
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.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
All work is empty save when there is love.
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.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.