Inspirational Quotes
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
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.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
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.
Don't quit.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Action is the antidote to despair.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
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.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Embrace your inner voice.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Don't water your weeds.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
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.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.