Inspirational Quotes
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
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 keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
You create your reality.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
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.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Let's roll.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
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.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.