Inspirational Quotes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The past does not equal the future.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
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.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
You create your reality.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Roll with the punches.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Great men are not always wise.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
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".
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.