Inspirational Quotes
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
This too, shall pass.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Talkers are no good doers.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
You only get out what you put in.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
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.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
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.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
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.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Above all to thine own self be true.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.