Inspirational Quotes
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The road to success is always under construction.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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.
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.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
This too, shall pass.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
He who hesitates is lost !
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
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.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Remove failure as an option.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
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.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
God doesn't make junk.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.