Inspirational Quotes
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
He who stops being better stops being good.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
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 ?
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
They can because they think they can.
Ideas... they have the power
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
What ever you are be a good one.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
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 one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Never, never, never give up.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.