Inspirational Quotes
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Many hands make light work.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
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 best way out is always through.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
They can because they think they can.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Where there's life, there's hope.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Embrace your inner voice.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The book you don't read cant help.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The road to success is always under construction.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.