Inspirational Quotes
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Better late than never.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Live life with passion.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Never Quit.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
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.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
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.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
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.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
After your jump, the net appears.
No pain, No gain.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
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.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
God doesn't make junk.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Don't quit.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The best things in life are not things.
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
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.