Inspirational Quotes
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Happiness is a choice.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
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.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
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.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Live your life and forget your age.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Believe in yourself.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
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.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
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.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
There is no substitute for hard work.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.