Inspirational Quotes
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
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.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Attitude determines altitude.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
I think therefore I am
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
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.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Never, never, never give up.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Anything is possible.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
The past does not equal the future.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.