Inspirational Quotes
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Talkers are no good doers.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It's always too soon to quit !
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Don't water your weeds.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
There is no education like adversity.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Success leaves clues.
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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Never say die.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Life is what you make it.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
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.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Every dog has his day.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.