Inspirational Quotes
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Nothing succeeds like success.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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.
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.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Don't water your weeds.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
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.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
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.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Practice makes perfect.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.