Inspirational Quotes
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Live with passion !
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The buck stops here.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
High expectations are the key to everything.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.