Inspirational Quotes
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
May you live all the days of your life.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
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.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
My friends are my estate.
Obstacles are great incentives.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
They are able because they think they are able.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
I am the captain of my soul.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
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.
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.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
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 we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'