Inspirational Quotes
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Make the second effort your second nature.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Success is never wondering what if.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
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.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
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 real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
After your jump, the net appears.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Success is the child of audacity.
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.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
I think therefore I am
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.