Inspirational Quotes
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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''.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
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.
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.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
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
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Live with passion !
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
He who has hope has everything.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.