Inspirational Quotes
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Live life to the fullest.
You can do what you want to do.
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
We have not yet begun to fight.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
One man with courage is a majority.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Laughter is the best medicine.
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.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Many hands make light work.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Attitude determines altitude.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
The best way out is always through.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
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.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!