Inspirational Quotes
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
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.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
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.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
It's never too late.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Believe in yourself.
It is always your next move.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Success is predictable.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
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.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.