Inspirational Quotes
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
They can because they think they can.
Never stop dreaming.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
They can because they think they can.
Happiness is a choice.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Hard work pays off.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
You must motivate yourself every day.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Never, never, never give up.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Embrace your inner voice.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.