Inspirational Quotes
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Hard work pays off.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
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.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The road to success is always under construction.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
One man with courage is a majority.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
It's never too late.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Without a general an army is lost.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.