Inspirational Quotes
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Hunker down.
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.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
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.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
He who stops being better stops being good.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
My friends are my estate.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
High expectations are the key to everything.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Practice makes perfect.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Success is the child of audacity.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Friendship is not born of words alone.