Inspirational Quotes
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Don't fear, just live right.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Live with passion.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Make the second effort your second nature.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Roll with the punches.
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.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
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.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Every human heart is human.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.