Inspirational Quotes
Live with passion.
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.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
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.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
There is no education like adversity.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
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.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
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
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Let's roll.
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.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
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.
If you would create something, you must be something.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
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.