Inspirational Quotes
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
They can because they think they can.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Know thyself.
It is always your next move.
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.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
For with god all things are possible.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.