Inspirational Quotes
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Ability is sexless.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Think and grow rich.
Well done is better than well said.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
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.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
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.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
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.
Be the best that you can be.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.