Inspirational Quotes
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Ideas... they have the power
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
No one became poor by giving alms.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
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.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Roll with the punches.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Talkers are no good doers.
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.
Live your life and forget your age.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Well done is better than well said.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
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.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness