Inspirational Quotes
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
They can because they think they can.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Every artist was first an amateur.
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.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
It ain't over till it's over.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
It's never too late.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Count your blessings.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.