Inspirational Quotes
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
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.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
I light my candle from their torches.
My friends are my estate.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Love conquers all.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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 art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
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.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
You become what you think about.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
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.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
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.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
You create your reality.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
It's always too soon to quit !
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Live your life and forget your age.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.