Inspirational Quotes
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
It ain't over till it's over.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
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.
Be the best that you can be.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Be Here Now.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
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.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Be all you can be.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
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.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The buck stops here.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.