Inspirational Quotes
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
It is always your next move.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
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.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
None are homely who smile.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Nothing succeeds like success.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
You're as old as you behave.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
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.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
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.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
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.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
It's always too soon to quit !
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Many hands make light work.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.