Inspirational Quotes
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
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.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Make the second effort your second nature.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Believe in yourself.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Happiness is a state of mind.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Great men are not always wise.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
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.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Hope springs eternal.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Laughter is the best medicine.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Embrace your inner voice.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
All work is empty save when there is love.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
My friends are my estate.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.