Inspirational Quotes
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Don't think it, ink it.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Never say more than is necessary.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Let's roll.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.