Inspirational Quotes
Well done is better than well said.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
It ain't over till it's over.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
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.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
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.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
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.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
What ever you are be a good one.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
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.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Our intentions create our reality.
This is the beginning of a new day.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
You're as old as you behave.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The beginning is the half of every action.
The ready back gets all the loads.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Every artist was first an amateur.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Reach for the stars.