Inspirational Quotes
Happiness is a state of mind.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
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.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
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.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
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.
You create your reality.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
They are able because they think they are able.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Only the educated are free.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
The best things in life are not things.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Whatever it takes !
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
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.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
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.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Actions speak louder than words.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
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.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.