Inspirational Quotes
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Every dog has his day.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
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.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
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.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
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.'
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?