Inspirational Quotes
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
We must be the change we wish to see.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
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.
Be who you are in every situation.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Action is the antidote to despair.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
We have not yet begun to fight.
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.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Practice makes perfect.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
They can because they think they can.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
You become what you think about.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
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.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
The time is always right to do what is right.
Happiness is a choice.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.