Inspirational Quotes
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
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.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
I light my candle from their torches.
Every dog has his day.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
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.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
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.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
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
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.