Inspirational Quotes
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Experience is the best teacher.
Keep the Faith.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Many hands make light work.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
You become what you think about.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The road to success is always under construction.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Roll with the punches.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.