Inspirational Quotes
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
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.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
You only get out what you put in.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Happiness is a state of activity.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
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.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Attitude is everything.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Embrace your inner voice.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Fortune favors the brave.
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.
Better late than never.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Faith can move mountains.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
There are no gains without pains.
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.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
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.
Live with passion.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Above all to thine own self be true.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Hope springs eternal.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.