Inspirational Quotes
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Don't think it, ink it.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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 mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
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.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Truth fears no questions.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
The show must go on.
I am the captain of my soul.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
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.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
He who hesitates is lost.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.