Inspirational Quotes
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
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.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Change comes from within.
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.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Do what you love and the money will follow
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Without a general an army is lost.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Think and grow rich.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.