Inspirational Quotes
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
It is always your next move.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Practice makes perfect.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The road to success is always under construction.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Hard work pays off.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Only the educated are free.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The show must go on.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Above all to thine own self be true.
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.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Every human heart is human.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
The book you don't read cant help.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Hunker down.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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 ?
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.