Inspirational Quotes
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Roll with the punches.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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.
You create your reality.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
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.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
The show must go on.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Faith can move mountains.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.