Inspirational Quotes
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Our intentions create our reality.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Know thyself.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The show must go on.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.