Inspirational Quotes
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Keep the Faith.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
It ain't over till it's over.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
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
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Well done is better than well said.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
No involvement, no commitment.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
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.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.