Inspirational Quotes
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Never say die.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Ability is sexless.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
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.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Remove failure as an option.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Do it now !
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Count your blessings.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.