Inspirational Quotes
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
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 !
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
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.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The world belongs to the energetic.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Don't fear, just live right.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.