Inspirational Quotes
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
You create your reality.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The book you don't read cant help.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The buck stops here.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The show must go on.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Be Here Now.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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.
None are homely who smile.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '