Inspirational Quotes
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Make the second effort your second nature.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Whatever you are be a good one.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Never say more than is necessary.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Let thy words be few.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
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 way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Many hands make light work.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
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.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
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.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
I am the captain of my soul.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Your attitude determines your altitude.