Inspirational Quotes
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
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.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
You're as old as you behave.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
For with god all things are possible.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
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.
Experience is the best teacher.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
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.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Action is the antidote to despair.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.