Inspirational Quotes
Obstacles are great incentives.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
My life is my message.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
If you would create something, you must be something.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
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?
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
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.
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.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
What ever you are be a good one.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Success leaves clues.
The truth is more important than the facts.
You must motivate yourself every day.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.