Inspirational Quotes
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Slow but steady wins the race.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Begin with the end in mind.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
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.
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.