Inspirational Quotes
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Success is a journey not a destination.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The road to success is always under construction.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
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.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Ideas without action are worthless.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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. Discover.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Let's roll.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
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.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Don't quit.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
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.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Roll with the punches.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.