Inspirational Quotes
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
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.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Where there's life, there's hope.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Ability is sexless.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
You create your reality.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
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.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
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.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
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.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
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.