Inspirational Quotes
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
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.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
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.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Don't fear, just live right.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Old love does not rust.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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!
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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 foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Those who laugh - last!!
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Our intentions create our reality.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Never say more than is necessary.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
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.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.