Inspirational Quotes
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
In love beggar and king are equal.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
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.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
A bold onset is half the battle.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
My friends are my estate.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The past does not equal the future.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
You're as old as you behave.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
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.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
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.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Think and grow rich.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.