Inspirational Quotes
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
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.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Never say more than is necessary.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
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.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Hard work pays off.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
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.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Be Here Now.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
No involvement, no commitment.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Live with passion !
Talkers are no good doers.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Where there's life, there's hope.