Inspirational Quotes
Slow but steady wins the race.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Be the best that you can be.
Actions speak louder than words.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
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.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Above all to thine own self be true.