Inspirational Quotes
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.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Those who laugh - last!!
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
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 ?
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
There is time for everything.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
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.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Think and grow rich.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
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.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
The best things in life are not things.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
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 a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Don't ever give up.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Seize the day.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.