Inspirational Quotes
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
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.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Remove failure as an option.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Every dog has his day.