Inspirational Quotes
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
One man with courage is a majority.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
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.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Fortune favors the brave.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
He who stops being better stops being good.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Think and grow rich.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
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.