Inspirational Quotes
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Live your dreams.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
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.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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 unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
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.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
You're as old as you behave.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
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.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
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.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Roll with the punches.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
You are what you think you are.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Live your life and forget your age.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
My life is my message.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Whatever it takes !
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
There is no education like adversity.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.