Inspirational Quotes
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
My friends are my estate.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Success leaves clues.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Don't ever give up.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.