Inspirational Quotes
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Love understands all languages.
Remove failure as an option.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Don't think it, ink it.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
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.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
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.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The buck stops here.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Where there's life, there's hope.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
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.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
My friends are my estate.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
The world belongs to the energetic.