Inspirational Quotes
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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?
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Experience is the best teacher.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
You can do what you want to do.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
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.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Attitude is everything.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Old love does not rust.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Be the best that you can be.
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.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.