Inspirational Quotes
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Roll with the punches.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Carpe diem.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
If there is a will, there is a way.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.