Inspirational Quotes
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Where there's life, there's hope.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
What ever you are be a good one.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Old love does not rust.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.