Inspirational Quotes
Practice makes perfect.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Life is what you make it.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
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.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Only the educated are free.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Be all you can be.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
There is time for everything.