Inspirational Quotes
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
None are homely who smile.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
This is the beginning of a new day.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The road to success is always under construction.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Ideas... they have the power
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
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?
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.