Inspirational Quotes
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
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.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
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.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The best things in life are not things.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
It's never too late.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
I think therefore I am
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
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.
Change comes from within.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The book you don't read cant help.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Only the educated are free.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
To go fast, row slowly.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
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.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.