Inspirational Quotes
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Success leaves clues.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The road to success is always under construction.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Things do not change we change.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
You only get out what you put in.