Inspirational Quotes
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Don't fear, just live right.
I think therefore I am
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Every dog has his day.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Kindness is always fashionable.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
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.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
You're as old as you behave.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.