Inspirational Quotes
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
No man is wise enough by himself.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Be who you are in every situation.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Action is the antidote to despair.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Children are all foreigners.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Practice makes perfect.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Don't water your weeds.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
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.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.