Inspirational Quotes
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
No one became poor by giving alms.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Embrace your inner voice.
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.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
If there is a will, there is a way.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Know thyself.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Do what you love and the money will follow
High expectations are the key to everything.
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.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
What ever you are be a good one.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.