Inspirational Quotes
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
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
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
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.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The ready back gets all the loads.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
It's always too soon to quit !
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
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.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.