Inspirational Quotes
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Every dog has his day.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
They are able because they think they are able.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The past does not equal the future.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
He who hesitates is lost.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
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.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Hard work pays off.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.