Inspirational Quotes
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
There is no education like adversity.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Never say die.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
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.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
For with god all things are possible.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
There are no gains without pains.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Be who you are in every situation.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Never, never, never give up.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Life is what you make it.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.