Inspirational Quotes
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Remove failure as an option.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
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.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Only the educated are free.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Reach for the stars.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Slow but steady wins the race.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Hope springs eternal.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
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.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Above all to thine own self be true.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Experience is the best teacher.
The best things in life are free.
Well done is better than well said.