Inspirational Quotes
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
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.
Kind words conquer.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
The sun will come up tomorrow
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Above all to thine own self be true.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
None are homely who smile.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
For with god all things are possible.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Keep away from small 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.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Ideas... they have the power
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.