Inspirational Quotes
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
The best things in life are free.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Old love does not rust.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
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.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Well done is better than well said.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Live life with passion.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Every dog has his day.
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.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.