Inspirational Quotes
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
God doesn't make junk.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Don't think it, ink it.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
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.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Faith can move mountains.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.