Inspirational Quotes
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
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.
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.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The book you don't read cant help.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
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.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
I think therefore I am
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
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 ?
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
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.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.