Inspirational Quotes
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Success is never wondering what if.
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.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
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.
Begin with the end in mind.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
They can because they think they can.
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.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Believe in yourself.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Success is predictable.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
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.
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.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Live life with passion.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
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.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Attitude determines altitude.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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.
Don't fear, just live right.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.