Some Inspirational Quotes

“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man.

The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

“What one approves, another scorns, and thus his nature each discloses;

You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.”

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon,

but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him

to put the other somewhat higher.”

“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;

it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.”

“We cannot do everything at once,

but we can do something at once.”

“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big,

not realizing that life is made up of little things.”

the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their

ability to outgrow small ones.”

“If the power to do hard work is not a skill,

it's the best possible substitute for it.”

“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion

than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.”

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed

in overalls and looks like work.”

“Two shoe salesmen…find themselves in a rustic backward part

of Africa. The first salesman wires back to his head office:

“There is no prospect of sales. Natives do not wear shoes!'

The other sales man wires: 'No one wears shoes here.

We can dominate the market. Send all possible stock.'”

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones

out of stumbling blocks.”

“If you want a track team to win the high jump,

you find one person who can jump seven feet,

not seven people who can jump one foot.”

The best way to appreciate leisure is to work for it.”

“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

If you can't change facts, try bending your attitude.”

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got

where he is had to begin where he was.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't,

you are usually right."

“Those who say it can't be done are usually

interrupted by others doing it.”

“Every man's work is a portrait of himself.”

The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back

to the dids and the did-nots.”

“There are two kinds of men who never amount to much - those who

cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.”\

“Experience is not what happens to you;

it is what you do with what happens to you.”

“Wisdom consists in knowing what to do with what you know.”

“I love the winning, I can take the losing,

but most of all I love to play.”

“Do what you love to do and give it your very best.

Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.

If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it

your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man

before you know it.”

“A widely prevalent notion today seems to demand instant

achievement of goals, without any of the wearying, frustrating preparation

that is indispensable to any task. As the exemplar way of life,

the professional - that man or woman who injects every

new task or duty, no matter how small, with discipline of mind and

spirit - is a vanishing American, particularly among those

who too often believe that dreams come true because they

ought to and not because they are caused to materialize.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;

the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“You stop worrying about what other people think about you

when you realize how little they do.”

“To be nobody but myself, in a world that is doing its best, night and

day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle

which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”

“Those who strive for great goals must risk rejection from their peers”

We do not stop playing because we are old.

We grow old because we stop playing.”

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come

from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.”

“If we have no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:

if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity

would not be so welcome.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.

You are you and that is the beginning and the end -

no apologies, no regrets.

“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're

going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.”

“Even when you’ve played the game of your life, it’s the feeling

of teamwork that you’ll remember. You’ll forget the plays, the shots,

and the scores. But you’ll never forget your teammates.”

“Keep on going and chances are you will stumble on something…I

have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”

You can make more friends in two months by becoming

interested in other people than you can in two years by

trying to get other people interested in you.”

What counts is not the number of hours you put in,

but how much you put in the hours.”

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”

“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

“It is better to wear out than to rust out.”

“If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.”

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth,

I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday,

until the words become as much a habit as my breathing,

and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the

blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition

my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again

and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk.

I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now

is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor

of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when

the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed

to another and lost to me forever. This is the time.

This is the place. I am the person.”

TOMORROW POEM.

This is a great poem by Edgar Guest

He was going to be all that a mortal should be
      Tomorrow.
No one should be kinder or braver than he
      Tomorrow.
A friend who was troubled and weary he knew,
Who'd be glad of a lift and who needed it, too;
On him he would call and see what he could do
      Tomorrow.

Each morning he stacked up the letters he'd write
      Tomorrow.
And thought of the folks he would fill with delight
      Tomorrow.
It was too bad, indeed, he was busy today,
And hadn't a minute to stop on his way;
More time he would have to give others, he'd say
      Tomorrow.

The greatest of workers this man would have been
      Tomorrow.
The world would have known him, had he ever seen
      Tomorrow.
But the fact is he died and he faded from view,
And all that he left here when living was through
Was a mountain of things he intended to do
      Tomorrow.

And lastly, Lincoln’s Road to the Whitehouse

1. Failed in business in 1831.
2. Defeated for Legislature in 1832.
3. Second failure in business in 1833.
4. Suffered nervous breakdown in 1836.
5. Defeated for Speaker in 1838.
6. Defeated for Elector in 1840.
7. Defeated for Congress in 1843.
8. Defeated for Congress in 1848.
9. Defeated for Senate in 1855.
10. Defeated for Vice President in 1856.
11. Defeated for Senate in 1858.
12. Elected President in 1860.
13. Remembered forever.