Inspirational Quotes
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
You only get out what you put in.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
To go fast, row slowly.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
My friends are my estate.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
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.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
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.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Don't ever give up.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Well done is better than well said.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.