Inspirational Quotes
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Practice makes perfect.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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. Discover.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.