Inspirational Quotes
Every artist was first an amateur.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The world belongs to the energetic.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Many hands make light work.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Where there's life, there's hope.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
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.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Remove failure as an option.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Be the best that you can be.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Practice makes perfect.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Without a general an army is lost.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.