Inspirational Quotes
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Hope springs eternal.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Nothing succeeds like success.
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.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The buck stops here.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Happiness is a choice.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
One man with courage is a majority.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
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.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Success leaves clues.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
My friends are my estate.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.