Inspirational Quotes
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
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 become what you think about.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Whatever you are be a good one.
You're as old as you behave.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.