Inspirational Quotes
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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.
Let thy words be few.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Happiness is a state of mind.
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.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
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.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
There are no gains without pains.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Attitude is everything.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
We have not yet begun to fight.
This is the beginning of a new day.
For with god all things are possible.
Experience is the best teacher.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
None are homely who smile.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.