Inspirational Quotes
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.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
To go fast, row slowly.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
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.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The buck stops here.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
We will either find a way or make one.
We must be the change we wish to see.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Never Quit.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.