Inspirational Quotes
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Love conquers all.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
None are homely who smile.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
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.