Inspirational Quotes
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
They alone live, who live for others.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Never spend your money before you have it.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
It's never too late.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
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.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Every dog has his day.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
You're as old as you behave.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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.