Inspirational Quotes
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Life is what you make it.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Be the best that you can be.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Success is the child of audacity.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
I light my candle from their torches.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
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.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Kindness is always fashionable.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Every artist was first an amateur.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.