Inspirational Quotes
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Ideas... they have the power
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
The beginning is the half of every action.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
After your jump, the net appears.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Success is never wondering what if.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Live life to the fullest.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.