Inspirational Quotes
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Follow your dreams.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
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.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The best things in life are free.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Do what you love and the money will follow
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Let thy words be few.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Think and grow rich.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The best things in life are not things.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.