Inspirational Quotes
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Where there's life, there's hope.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Many hands make light work.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
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.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
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.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
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.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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.
What ever you are be a good one.