Inspirational Quotes
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
No one became poor by giving alms.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Better late than never.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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.
Happiness is a choice.
Reach for the stars.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Count your blessings.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Experience is the best teacher.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
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.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
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.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
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.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Faith can move mountains.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.