Inspirational Quotes
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Never say die.
Honesty is the best image.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
There are no gains without pains.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
In love beggar and king are equal.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
They are able because they think they are able.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Attitude is everything.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.