Inspirational Quotes
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
How far you go in life depends on you 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.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Remove failure as an option.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
It's always too soon to quit !
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Anything is possible.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.