Inspirational Quotes
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
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.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
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.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Never say more than is necessary.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Live your dreams.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
You are what you think you are.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.