Inspirational Quotes
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Without a general an army is lost.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Kind words conquer.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
It is always your next move.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
To ask the hard question is simple.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.