Inspirational Quotes
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Adventure is worthwhile.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Kind words conquer.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Above all to thine own self be true.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Laughter is the best medicine.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
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.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
You really can change the world if you care enough.
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.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
To ask the hard question is simple.
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.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
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.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.