Inspirational Quotes
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Never stop dreaming.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Faith can move mountains.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
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.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
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.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Happiness is a choice.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
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.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.