Inspirational Quotes
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Embrace your inner voice.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Whatever it takes !
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Without a general an army is lost.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
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.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.