Inspirational Quotes
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Keep the Faith.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
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.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
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.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.