Inspirational Quotes
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Success is predictable.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
My life is my message.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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.
Do or do not, there is no try.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
This too, shall pass.
Only the educated are free.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Attitude determines altitude.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Remove failure as an option.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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.
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.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Things do not change we change.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.