Inspirational Quotes
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Ability is sexless.
Truth fears no questions.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Nothing succeeds like success.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Live your life and forget your age.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
You can do what you want to do.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
This too, shall pass.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
No man is wise enough by himself.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
They alone live, who live for others.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.