Inspirational Quotes
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
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.
The book you don't read cant help.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Well done is better than well said.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Things do not change we change.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
After your jump, the net appears.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
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 !
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
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%.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
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.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
It's always too soon to quit !
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
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.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
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.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If it is to be it is up to me.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.