Inspirational Quotes
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
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.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
My life is my message.
It is always your next move.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Many hands make light work.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
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
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.