Inspirational Quotes
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
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.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
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
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
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.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
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.
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.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Change comes from within.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.