Inspirational Quotes
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Live life to the fullest.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Old love does not rust.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
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''.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.