Inspirational Quotes
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
They are able because they think they are able.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Happiness is a state of mind.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Success is predictable.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Do or do not, there is no try.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The best things in life are free.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Never say more than is necessary.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
I think therefore I am
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Well done is better than well said.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Love understands all languages.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
There is no education like adversity.
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.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
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.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Ideas without action are worthless.