Inspirational Quotes
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
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.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
There are no gains without pains.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
He who hesitates is lost !
This is the beginning of a new day.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
If there is a will, there is a way.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
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.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
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.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Carpe diem.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Without a general an army is lost.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.