Inspirational Quotes
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
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.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
It is always your next move.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Laughter is the best medicine.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
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 person does not hear.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Don't quit.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
They alone live, who live for others.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Truth fears no questions.
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.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Be who you are in every situation.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
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.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Attitude is everything.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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?
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.