Inspirational Quotes
Be Here Now.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
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.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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 ?
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Happiness is a state of activity.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
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.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
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.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
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.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.