Inspirational Quotes
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
They alone live, who live for others.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Love conquers all.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Reach for the stars.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Know thyself.
None are homely who smile.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Happiness is a state of activity.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Success is predictable.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
To ask the hard question is simple.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Hunker down.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Don't quit.
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.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes