Inspiration of the Day
From What We Get, We Can Make A Living; What We Give, However, Makes A Life.
The Trouble With Doing Something Right The First Time Is That Nobody Appreciates How Difficult It Was.
I Like To Surround Myself With People Who’re Better Than Me Because I Enjoy Being Pushed And Challenged.
A Pessimist Sees The Difficulty In Every Opportunity; An Optimist Sees The Opportunity In Every Difficulty.
In The Proximity Of Death, The Whole Concept Of Ownership Stands Revealed As Ultimately Meaningless.
If You Know What It Is Going To Look Like Before You Begin, It's Not Worth Starting.
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.
The True Test Of Character Is Not How Much We Know How To Do, But How We Behave When We Don't Know What To Do.
My Favorite Holding Period Is Forever.
Think Twice, Do It Once. Do It Once, Do It Right.
Let's Stick To What We're Best At, And Do It Beter.
If You Believe That Feeling Bad Or Worrying Long Enough Will Change A Past Or Future Event, Then You Are Residing On Another Planet With A Different Reality System.
Sometimes, To Be Human, You Have To Take Sides.
Hard Work Without Talent Is A Shame, But Talent Without Hard Work Is A Tragedy.
Every Exit Is An Entry Somewhere.
Many Of Life's Failures Are People Who Do Not Realize How Close They Were To Success When They Gave Up.
Living In The World Always Requires Action.
The Idea Is To Be Wise Enough To Act In A Way That Reduces Or Eliminates Reactions That Bring Us Suffering.
Do Not Wait For The Future To Come To You... Face The Future.
If You Believe That Every Life Has Equal Value, It's Revolting To Learn That Some Lives Are Seen As Worth Saving And Others Are Not. We Said To Ourselves: 'This Can't Be True. But If It Is True, It Deserves To Be The Priority Of Our Giving.'
The Reason People Blame Things On Previous Generations Is That There's Only One Other Choice.
If Two People Agree On Everything In A Marriage, One Of Them Is Unnecessary.
I Don't Wish To Be Everything To Everyone, But I Would Like To Be Something To Someone.
The Only Regrets That One Can Ever Have Are The Risks That One Didn't Take.
Expect The Best. Prepare For The Worst. Capitalize On What Comes.
The Extent To Which People Are Willing To Take Risks Depends On The Rewards They Think They May Gain. Effective Property And Individual Rights In General Decrease Uncertainty And Open A Wider Scope For Risk Taking And The Actions That Can Produce Material Well-Being. Inaction Produces Nothing.
Being Big And Rich And Well -
Armed Does Not Make You A Leader. Followers Make You That,
And The Loyalty Of Followers Has To Be Earned By More Than A Great Speech And An Inspiring Life Story.
My View, Having Done This For A Long Time, Is You Never Know. You Make The Best Call With The Judgment You Have.
We Cannot Change Anything Unless We Accept It. Condemnation Does Not Liberate, It Oppresses.
Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People.
You Can Tell Whether A Man Is Clever By His Answers. You Can Tell Whether A Man Is Wise By His Questions.
I Learned That Courage Was Not The Absence Of Fear, But The Triumph Over It. The Brave Man Is Not He Who Does Not Feel Afraid, But He Who Conquers That Fear.
Be More Concerned With Your Character Than With Your Reputation,
Because Your Character Is What You Are,
While Your Reputation Is What Others Think Of You.
The Only Way We Are Going To Keep Our Standard Of Living Rising Is To Build A Society That Produces People Who Can Keep Inventing The Future.
The Real Reward For Pain Is This: Self-Knowledge.
If I Quit, However, It Would Have Lasted Forever, That Surrender,
Even The Smallest Act Of Giving Up, Would Have Stayed With Me For The Duration.
When You Felt Like Quitting, You Had To Ask Yourself Which You Would Rather Live With.
Age Is Just A Number.
Ask Yourself Whether The Dream Of Heaven And Greatness Should Be Waiting For Us In Our Graves - Or Whether It Should Be Ours Here And Now And On This Earth.
More People Should Learn To Tell Their Dollars Where To Go Instead Of Asking Them Where They Went.
The Really Good Idea Is Always Traceable Back Quite A Long Way, Often To A Not Very Good Idea Which Sparked Off Another Idea That Was Not Only Slightly Better, Which Somebody Else Misunderstood In Such A Way That They Then Said Something Which Was Really Rather Interesting.
I Am Rather Inclined To Silence, And Whether That Be Wise Or Not, It Is At Least More Unusual Nowadays To Find A Man Who Can Hold His Tongue Than To Find One Who Cannot.
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.
One See Great Things From The Valley, Only Small Things From The Peak.
We Grow Only By Giving The Best Of Ourselves To Something That We Believe In Heart And Soul.
This Is The Essence Of Loyalty.
A Life Spent Making Mistakes Is Not Only More Honorable But More Useful Than A Life Spent Doing Nothing.
It Is Better To Conquer Yourself Than To Win A Thousand Battles. Then The Victory Is Yours. It Cannot Be Taken From You, Not By Angels Or By Demons, Heaven Or Hell.
When You Cannot Get A Compliment Any Other Way, Pay Yourself One.
When Your Life Sucks From The Beginning, You Don't Know Where To Go But Up.
It Is My Great Hope Someday To See Science And Decision Makers Rediscover What The Ancients Have Always Known,
Namely That Our Highest Currency Is Respect.
Always Write Angry Letters To Your Enemies. Never Mail Them.
Life Is Not About How Fast You Run Or How High You Climb, But How Well You Bounce.
I Do Not Know Anyone Who Has Got To The Top Without Hard Work. That Is The Recipe. It Will Not Always Get You To The Top, But Should Get You Pretty Near.
Pleasure In The Job Puts Perfection In The Work.
We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence, Then, Is Not An Act, But A Habit.
I Write My Own Quotes. Except This One. I Obviously Stole This From Somebody Really Clever.
Think Like A Man, Look Like A Girl, Behave Like A Lady, And Work Like A Slave.
What Made Me Who I Am Now Is The Sum Of All The Humiliations Suffered During Childhood.
Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose. From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That Man Is Here For The Sake Of Other Men - Above All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-Being Our Own Happiness Depends.
I Come To Realize That Each Achievement Is Only A Point Along The Road.
The Real Goodness Of Living Comes From The Journey Itself,
With The Striving And Desire To Keep Moving.
People Die. That Truth Is So Disheartening That At Times I Can't Bear To Articulate It.
Why Should We Go On, You Might Ask? Why Don't We All Just Stop And Lie Down Where We Are?
But There's Another Truth, Too.
People Live. It's An Equal And Opposing Truth. People Live, And In The Most Remarkable Ways.
Dance Like Nobody's Watching; Love Like You've Never Been Heard; Sing Like Nobody's Listening; Live Like It's Heaven On Earth.
If You Are Doing Your Best, You Will Not Have Time To Worry About Failure.
Ring And Jewels Are Not Gifts, But Apologies For Girls. The Only Gift Is A Portion Of Thyself.
People, Even More Than Things, Have To Be Restored, Renewed, Revived, Reclaimed, And Redeemed; Never Throw Out Anyone.
