You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Hard work pays off.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Attitude is everything.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.