Inspirational Quotes
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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 death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
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.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Live with passion !
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
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.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
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.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
You are what you think you are.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
You're as old as you behave.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
You become what you think about.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.