Inspirational Quotes
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Let's roll.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Fortune favors the brave.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Carpe diem.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
None are homely who smile.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.