Inspirational Quotes
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Hope springs eternal.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Never, never, never give up.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
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.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
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.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
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.
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.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
Obstacles are great incentives.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.