Inspirational Quotes
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
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.
High expectations are the key to everything.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Great men are not always wise.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Old love does not rust.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
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.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
A bold onset is half the battle.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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.
Don't fear, just live right.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Success is predictable.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Success is the child of audacity.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Without a general an army is lost.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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.