Inspirational Quotes
This is the beginning of a new day.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Children are all foreigners.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
The truth is more important than the facts.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
What ever you are be a good one.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Let's roll.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It's always too soon to quit !
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
They alone live, who live for others.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Hunker down.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.