Inspirational Quotes
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
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.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Let's roll.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
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.
One man with courage is a majority.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The road to success is always under construction.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
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.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
They are able because they think they are able.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
We will either find a way or make one.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
After your jump, the net appears.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Kind words conquer.
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.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.