Inspirational Quotes
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
None are homely who smile.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Never stop dreaming.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Where there's life, there's hope.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Security is a kind of death.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Fortune favors the brave.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
I am the captain of my soul.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Attitude determines altitude.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
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?
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
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.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Change comes from within.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.