Inspirational Quotes
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
High expectations are the key to everything.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
They can because they think they can.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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.
Hope springs eternal.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.