Motivational Quotes - Page 8

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.