Inspirational Quotes
Every dog has his day.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Children are all foreigners.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
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.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
He who stops being better stops being good.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin 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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Experience is the best teacher.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
This is the beginning of a new day.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.