Inspirational Quotes
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
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.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
In love beggar and king are equal.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
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.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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 ?
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Begin with the end in mind.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Be who you are in every situation.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Keep the Faith.