Inspirational Quotes
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Keep the Faith.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
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.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
They alone live, who live for others.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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.
Remove failure as an option.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
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.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
All work is empty save when there is love.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
This is the beginning of a new day.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.