Inspirational Quotes
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Keep away from 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.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
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.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Be all you can be.
Live with passion.
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.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Many hands make light work.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
None are homely who smile.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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 !
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.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
I am the captain of my soul.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
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.
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.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Well done is better than well said.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Whatever you are be a good one.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.