Inspirational Quotes
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Love sees roses without thorns.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
None are homely who smile.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
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.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Count your blessings.
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.
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.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Nature does nothing uselessly.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Strike while the iron is hot.
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.
Every dog has his day.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.