Inspirational Quotes
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Practice makes perfect.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Success is predictable.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
God doesn't make junk.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Every dog has his day.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
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.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?