Inspirational Quotes
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
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.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Faith can move mountains.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Keep away from small 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.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
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.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
He who hesitates is lost.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
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 you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.