Inspirational Quotes
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
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.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
The sun will come up tomorrow
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
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.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
For with god all things are possible.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The buck stops here.
My life is my message.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
May you live all the days of your life.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
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.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
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.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Don't think it, ink it.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Well done is better than well said.