Inspirational Quotes
You are what you think you are.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
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.
There is no substitute for hard work.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Success is a journey not a destination.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
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.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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.
Honesty is the best image.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
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.
Begin with the end in mind.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.