Inspirational Quotes
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
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.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Truth fears no questions.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Fortune favors the brave.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Don't think it, ink it.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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.
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.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
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
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Let thy words be few.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.