Inspirational Quotes
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Be the best that you can be.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
You become what you think about.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Live with passion.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Keep the Faith.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
You create your reality.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
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.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.