Inspirational Quotes
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
God doesn't make junk.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Success leaves clues.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Slow but steady wins the race.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Never complain about what you permit.
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 ready back gets all the loads.
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.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Honesty is the best image.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Count your blessings.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
After your jump, the net appears.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
I think therefore I am
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
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.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Better late than never.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Do it now !
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Live life with passion.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Children are all foreigners.
No involvement, no commitment.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.