Inspirational Quotes
Be the best that you can be.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
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.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
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.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Hard work pays off.
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.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
God doesn't make junk.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Happiness is a state of mind.
He who stops being better stops being good.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
You only get out what you put in.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The best things in life are not things.
Success is the child of audacity.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
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.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Old love does not rust.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.