Inspirational Quotes
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
I am the captain of my soul.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
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.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
The buck stops here.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Count your blessings.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Live your dreams.
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.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Fortune favors the brave.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Nothing succeeds like success.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Many hands make light work.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
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.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.