Inspirational Quotes
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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 ?
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
To ask the hard question is simple.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Success is predictable.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
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.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Know thyself.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Be who you are in every situation.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
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.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
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 !
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.