Inspirational Quotes
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
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.
Reach for the stars.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
They can because they think they can.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
To go fast, row slowly.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Hard work pays off.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
The past does not equal the future.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
My friends are my estate.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Never Quit.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.