Inspirational Quotes
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
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.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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.
Do it now !
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Kind words conquer.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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.
Love understands all languages.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Many hands make light work.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
The sun will come up tomorrow
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.