Inspirational Quotes
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
If there is a will, there is a way.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
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.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Live your life and forget your age.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
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.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Whatever it takes !
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Our intentions create our reality.
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.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Roll with the punches.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
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.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Happiness is a choice.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
There are no gains without pains.