Inspirational Quotes
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
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's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
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.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
It is always your next move.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The past does not equal the future.
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?
Let's roll.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Begin with the end in mind.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
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.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.