Inspirational Quotes
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Never, never, never give up.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
The book you don't read cant help.
No pain, No gain.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
There is time for everything.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
The buck stops here.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
To ask the hard question is simple.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Well done is better than well said.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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.