Inspirational Quotes
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Success is never wondering what if.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
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.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
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.
I think therefore I am
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
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.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
This too, shall pass.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Success is a journey not a destination.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
There are no gains without pains.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Hunker down.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.