Inspirational Quotes
No one became poor by giving alms.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
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.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
They are able because they think they are able.
Do it now !
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Don't ever give up.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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 unexamined life is not worth living.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.