Inspirational Quotes

“Freedom never descends upon a people. It is always bought with a price.”
(Harry T. Moore)

The human scene is crowded with the people who have gone as far as they’re going simply because their goals aren’t high enough. (Paul J. Meyer)

Whether life is rough or smooth, ambition we must have, or die at the hands of our own laziness. (A.P. Gouthey)

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, that can inspire a human being. (John Lubbock)

Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessing here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won’t be hard in the end to lie down and rest. (Pearl Bailey)

You must have long-range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-term failures. (Charles N. Noble)

Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average. (A.W. Tozer)

A bad habit is like a comfortable bed–easy to get into but hard to get out of.
(Unknown)

A closed mouth gathers no foot. (Unknown)

Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your mouth is moving. (Unknown)

When you realize how much you don’t know, then you are getting smart. (Unknown)

Get to know the so called “Little People”. They are the ones that get things done in a bureaucracy. (Unknown)

Never compromise your integrity. Once you lose it, it is impossible to get it back. (Unknown)

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money not find much fin in life. (Charles Schwab)

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Jack Kinder)

Nothing happens unless first a dream. (Carl Sandburg)

Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do and like doing it. (Harry Truman)

If there was just one word I could use to describe a successful person, the one word would be attitude. (Bart Starr)

If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning isn’t very exciting. (Dick Vermeil)

It’s always been 10% talent and 90% hard work. (Paul Newman)

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. (Wooden)

Nothing will work unless you do. (Wooden)

Young people need models, not critics… (Wooden)

Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. (Wooden)

If you have given your all, you can still like what you see when you look in the mirror. Mirrors do not lie. (Meine Busack)

Respect all; fear none! (Busack)

The most talented team doesn’t necessarily win; the team that wants it the most, that works the hardest, that has the right attitude, that fights the longest can prevail over their opponents. (Mike Ditka)

If you dream it, you can do it. This whole thing started with a mouse. (Disney)

You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. (Osteen)

He who wants to shine must endure some burning. (Wooden)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, it is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us, we ask ourselves, who am i to be brilliant, georgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God your playing small does’nt help the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking down so someone won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give others permission to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others
[Marianne Williamson]

[IF]
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

(Rudyard Kipling)

What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude. (Lou Holtz)

Talking ain’t doing. (Lou Holtz)

Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be. (Lou Holtz)

As long as your opponent has life, don’t let that sucker up until he concedes. (Holtz)

Don’t be afraid of failure. There is no such thing. (Miles Davis)

Don’t let what you don’t have keep you from using what you do have. (Holtz)

You aren’t good enough to get mad! (Holtz)

Pressure comes when someone calls upon you to do a task for which you are unprepared. (Tony LaRussa)

Never let anyone know you’re rattled. (Lou Holtz)

Your freedom to do things haphazardly ends where your obligation to others begins. (Holtz)

I read of a reverend who stood to speak
 at the funeral of his friend. 
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
from the beginning … to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth
and spoke of the following date with tears,
but he said what mattered most of all
was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time
that she spent alive on earth …
and now only those who loved her
know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not how much we own;
the cars … the house … the cash.
what matters is how we live and love
and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard …
are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left.
(You could be at “dash mid-range”)
If we could just slow down enough
to consider what’s true and real,
and always try to understand
the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger,
and show appreciation more
and love the people in our lives
like we’ve never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect,
and more often wear a smile …
remembering that this special dash
might only last a little while.
So, when your eulogy’s being read
with your life’s actions to rehash …
would you be proud of the things they say
about how you spent your dash?

(Linda Ellis)