Inspirational Quotes
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
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.
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.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Whatever you are be a good one.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Old love does not rust.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
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.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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.
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.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.