Inspirational Quotes
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
They are able because they think they are able.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The road to success is always under construction.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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 listener does not hear. quotes
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
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.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Action is the antidote to despair.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Do it now !
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Remove failure as an option.
He who has hope has everything.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Never, never, never give up.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Only the educated are free.
Every human heart is human.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.