Inspirational Quotes
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.
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.'
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
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.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
No involvement, no commitment.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Kindness is always fashionable.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Adventure is worthwhile.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
To go fast, row slowly.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Find the good -- and praise it.
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.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Anything is possible.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
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.