Inspirational Quotes
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Hope springs eternal.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
You are what you think you are.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
We must be the change we wish to see.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
You become what you think about.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.