Inspirational Quotes
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
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.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
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.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Love sees roses without thorns.
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.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Live with passion.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Every artist was first an amateur.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that 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.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
You must motivate yourself every day.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Experience is the best teacher.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.