Inspirational Quotes
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
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.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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 highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Ability is sexless.
After your jump, the net appears.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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 there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Keep away from 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.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Practice makes perfect.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Faith can move mountains.
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.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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 ?
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
You become what you think about.