Inspirational Quotes
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Be Here Now.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
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.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Don't think it, ink it.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
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.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
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.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
No pain, No gain.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The buck stops here.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Hard work pays off.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
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 ? ''
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
You are what you think you are.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I light my candle from their torches.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
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.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
You only get out what you put in.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Procrastination is the thief of time.